Argh! I'm going to pull my hair out! I'm a compete noob to digital photography and I'm doing a self-taught crash course. This is not working out so well.
Here's my problem:
I want my pictures to print the way it looks on the screen.
I know I need to get my monitor calibrated...but how does that relate to the vendor I will use to print my photographs? Do I need to use a specific profile to match the printer the vendor uses? How does this work? I'm so confused. I'm not a photographer. I don't know where to start with all of this technical crap.
And I don't have Photoshop. I have some basic editing software at the moment. I may be able to get Photoshop Elements (if that's what it's called), but I cannot afford the real deal at the moment. I want to learn this before I invest some big bucks. Can anyone help me?