Choosing color corrections is a great way to ensure that memories are preserved just the way you remember them. And using a printing service that offers color corrections solidifies that your photo's colors will stay true-to-life after they are printed and arrive at your doorstep.
As a photo lab made by photographers, for photographers, we take your photos very seriously and our Color Corrections team has decades of experience to help bring out the best in your photos.
What is Color Correction?
To all of the novices out there, Color Corrections are, generally, a service that aims to achieve the most accurate colors in your photos. It’s worth noting that Color Corrections include more than just color, like density, saturation, and contrast. Even black and white images need Color Corrections!
Since colors can vary across different devices, from cameras to phones to computers, professional color correction helps account for those differences. Our experienced color technicians carefully adjust the tones, brightness, and contrast of your images to achieve accurate and consistent results. When getting Color Corrections, our techs look at each individual image to review (and correct, if needed) aspects like the density, color tones, and saturation.
Whether you're printing 4x6" Photo Prints to add to your photo album collection or displaying your travel memories as Wall Decor, it's important to choose Color Corrections to ensure your photos turn out just like you expect them too.
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or a novice iPhonegrapher, our Color Corrections are guaranteed to make you happy. That’s right – if you don’t like how your color corrected photos turn out, we’ll reprint them because of our Picture Perfect Guarantee.
Take a look at how fast our color correctors work!
Our Professional Photo Color Correction Service Offering
For us, Color Corrections have been important from the very beginning. Our team of Color Correctors are the longest tenured employees at Nations Photo Lab. They go through an intensive training program (think: triathlon training, but for color nerds) and run regular audits of each other’s work.
After uploading your photos and selecting color correction during ordering, our team reviews each image to make necessary adjustments. This extra step can be particularly beneficial for ensuring skin tones look natural and colors appear true to life, especially if your monitor isn’t calibrated for color accuracy.
Certain print types tend to benefit the most from color correction. For example, Metal Prints are known for their vibrant, high-definition appearance, making accurate color representation essential. Canvas Prints benefit from color corrections, as well, to help account for how the printing surface may effect the final imagemake sure can display enhanced depth and warmth with corrected colors. And, of course, Photo Prints also benefit from color correction to achieve polished, professional true-to-life colors. Using color correction ensures your final prints reflect your memories as accurately and beautifully as possible.
The Benefits of Color Correction for Prints
Color correction can make a big difference when printing your photos, ensuring they look as close as possible to what you see on your screen. Even if you’re not a professional photographer, it’s a simple way to get high-quality results without needing specialized tools or expertise.
- No calibrated monitor? No problem. Monitors can display colors differently depending on their settings, and most aren’t calibrated to show accurate tones. Professional color correction accounts for this, so your prints match your memories instead of what may be an inaccurate screen display.
- Skip the editing software. Programs like Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop are commonly used to fine-tune images, but not everyone has access to them. Color correction offers a quick and easy alternative, ensuring your photos look polished without the need for expensive software or hours of editing.
- Natural, true-to-life results. From enhancing skin tones in your wedding prints to ensuring the vibrant colors of your graduation prints stand out, color correction helps your images look their best.
- Consistent quality. Whether you’re printing a few standout moments or creating an entire gallery wall, color correction ensures every photo has a uniform, professional look.
If you want your prints to capture the true essence of your memories without the hassle of advanced editing, color correction is a great solution.
Want more information about Color Corrections? You can run through our Color Corrections vocabulary, or reach out to one of our Photo Experts!
