Well folks, she's finished, Colm restored my mom's photograph for me to give her this year, and to my brothers families as well. Jovan did the sketch portrait and we are giving her that as well.....Thank you again. However I am having a serious problem, I have an Epson Photo Stylus 785 epx, and my photos are not coming out how they look in the computer. I've tried everything.....any suggestions....and I can't afford a spider either....I mean I can give them, it will fool the eye of somewhat not trained, but I get this silvery grey sheen to the skin, and its splotchy looking......... Thanks, Syyd

Beautiful pic......can't help with the Epson...I have the 870 but I've never had that problem. Sorry...oh and thanks for the welcome...I'm enjoying it here.

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What a beautiful lady your Mother is! Sorry, I have a HP printer...funnily enough it has it's little quirks too, but as you said, to an untrained eye...(having once worked briefly as a quality control supervisor at a printing factory, I have to resist the urge to get the loupe out every time I see a print!!)

Try different papers?. I have Excellent luck with the Epson matte papers ( If you like matte finish) thats all I can think of. Oh yeah, I use an old Epson Stylus photo.

Syyd, what paper are you using?? I'm not sure what the 785 is, but I think it is the same as the previous 875. Paper MATTERS!! I would recommend heavy weight matte and make adjustments in the advanced color part--I decrease magenta quite a bit, increase contrast and tweak the other colors to suit me. If you are using Colorlife (or Ilford's Glossy Pearl I think, from what I hear), download the Epson profile and use it as the printer profile and be sure in the driver to set it for glossy film, 1440, and in advanced--no color adjustment. If you are using Epson's glossy--well, I don't know--I don't use it, but I use glossy film for Office Depot glossy and use my own setttings. The Colorlife profile is a bit 'warm' I think, but lovely and many are using it. I have to say, after following printers and printing forums for a good while, that the consensus is that the prints will never be EXACTLY what is on your screen no matter the profiling, color management, etc.---I read beaucoup about this from many who use color managment and from all different printers--and the number of Epson's printers from the P400 to the lowly 780. And---paper matters---that's what I've learned. Like using different papers to print film---they each have their own 'character'. I don't know if this helps a tad, but since I print a lot---just thought I'd pass this on. I actually print from a printer app called Qimage, but occasionally print from PS--and its identical. Oh, I am also using Adobe RGB1998 as my color space and I'm embedding the profile in the image when I save it--its down at the bottom of the save dialog box in PS 6. This is lovely---and everyone is going to love it. Happy Holidays, Diane

Diane, thanks a million, I am using Epson premium photo gloss paper..... Okay...there's the problem I upped the magenta and lowed the yellow and cyan....thanks for this its a GREAT HELP!.....Off to finish...We have a snowstorm in one half of the county, my kids are with their dad where the snowstorm is, and supposed to come home for xmas, but they may not make it, lets keep our fingers crossed. Syyd

...huh, now thats a beautiful picture. And so is your mom too. Any change to see original pic? Hopefully kids got home. Happy new year Sydder. .n