What exactly is the differences? Is it brighter on the screen? Darker,lighter? none of the above?
Try this and if this doesn't do the trick it might be that your printer and your monitor are not in synch, in which case purchasing one of the things that calibrate your printer and monitor might do the trick:
Set your printer profile to adobe RGB.
I don't have elements and can only suggest if this info is on there somewhere. You probably need to change your photo's image profile to match the printers profile.
Find where you have Color Settings. That will bring up a window. Under working spaces make sure Adobe RGB is the preferred.
Under cmyk choose US web coated swop v 2.
Dot Gains should be 20%.
Under color management policies the RGB and the Gray should say preserve embedded profiles.
CMYK should say OFF.
close that window.
before you save a photo, first find something that says convert to profile. Again a window will pop up.
The first thing should say:
Source space> Profile> Adobe RGB (1998)
Under that should say:
Destination space and there should be a pulldown window. If it's not set to Adobe RGB (1998) you need to change it to that.
Under Conversion Engine it should list either mac ICM or Microsoft ICM (depending whether you have a mac or a PC). use that and not the one that says adobe.
Under intent use Relative colormetric.
If that doesnt do it, change it to absolute colormetric. I use the relative because my work is being sent to print for the book and that's how they asked me to do it. Problem is I don't remember what it was before the book, so this last one I'm just guessing.
Finally have black point compensation and dither checked.
after that make sure you're flattening your image if you use layers (save it as a separate doc so you don't lose the layers if you need to make changes!) and then save as a tiff...never a jpg.
Lastly I know in PS you can preview how it will supposedly print.
Now if it's not on elements and you do buy CS2 then you'll just have to refer back to here to have the info. ;)
