Tired of dull prints?

If you are frustrated with images that look bright on screen but dull when printed, watch this video to understand a bit about Color Profiles and Color Numbers. The basics are that when using a Convert command you are preserving the appearance and in order to do that you must convert the Color Numbers. When you use the Assign command you are preserving the original color numbers but the Appearance will change in the assigned profile. ALL CONVERTS AND ASSIGNS should only be done on a flattened file. The instructions in this video will show you why your images may come back from the printer looking dull and how to correct this. ADDENDUM The following is not necessary to do but I'm only outlining it to get the point across. You open your image from your camera or Camera Raw and notice it's embedded w/ AdobeRGB profile. You like the way it looks. You softproof by pressing Ctrl Y, then go to View-Proof Setup and check Windows, You notice the colors dulled down in the softproof. Press Ctrl Y to shut off softproofing. You go to Edit-Convert and choose sRGB, it still looks the same as it did in AdobeRGB without softproofing, only now the numbers have changed to preserve that appearance and the embedded profile changed to sRGB, Press Ctrl Y to turn on softproofing, see? No change. Press Ctrl Y to shut off Sofproofing. Now, you go to Edit-Assign and choose AdobeRGB, This preserves the numbers but the appearance has drastically bumped up in saturation, even more so than the original ...