My (deceased) Dad's German shepard (Thor) damaged an old picture of my Mom and Dad. My Mom was a wreck so I snuck it out and attempted to repair it using PS.
Uhh, if you are printing on your printer and have the profiles, many softwares, included photoshop, should allow you to soft proof the result on your screen.
So, if it comes overly dark it might show on the screen before you print.
But I have a feeling perhaps you know all of the above already, if you use PS.
No, I didn't know that. I am new to all of this and I never printed anything. In fact, I hate to say this, but I printed this photo at walgreens (drug store)...
Well, then it might be worth a shot.
If you can load the profile from the printer into PS (#perhaps you'll just need to select them in the proofing menu) and put it in soft proof, check if what it shows is more or less what you are getting now.
If it is, you could try and boost things up a bit with a layer and possibly masks if the probem does not affect the all image but only the suit and perhaps other areas.
It's not a fail proof approach in that it also dependes on how you calibrated your monitor and also on the fact that obviously the monitor emits light while paper reflects it, so a few other printouts might be needed to get exactly things like you want.
If the proofed image shows completely different from what you are getting, and this was already a print from photoshop, there might be some interference with the drivers of the printers, as I think (not 100% sure) that whatever PS outputs is then further tweaked accordingly to the settings in the drivers. You might need to disable something.
Check the links above, perhaps they explain what the best workflow is.
If you decide to print via some online service in the future, it is worth choosing one which offers profiles for their printers, so to avoid expensive nasty surprises (my 200 prints are all dark and the colours are off :).
If you still want to use the drugstore and have no printer, is a bit more tricky. They are probably using a Fuji Frontier, and you could download the drivers from the internet. But then it depends on how they set that specific printer. Perhaps ask them which printer they use and if they apply any default correction to the photos (often they do, assuming there is no postprocessing) which might be screwing up your carefully tweaked image.
Grrr, I printed it and it was so dark you can barely see the suit... How might do I have to make it to print right?
One of your biggest problems is that you left the photo untagged without a color space. You need to assign it the sRGB color space at the very least. If you use Photoshop use the Edit/Assign Profile menu and then save it to a new file.
