Re: Soft proofing?
Re: Soft proofing?
- Subject: Re: Soft proofing?
- From: bruce fraser <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 17:17:06 -0700
Obviously, Simulate Paper White lives or dies by the accuracy of the
paper white point in the profile, but even when it's dead-on, I still
find that it's absolutely necessary to do two things to make the
simulation useful.
1.) You absolutely have to hide all white UI elements-menus,
palettes, dialog boxes-because if you don't, your eye adapts to the
pure monitor white, leaving you wondering why there's crud all over
your highlights. For the simulation to work, the simulated paper
white has to be the brightest thing on the screen.
2.) When you turn on Simulate Paper White, the first thing you notice
is the dynamic range compression-to display the simulated paper
white, Photoshop has to throttle back on or two channels of the
monitor white-so the immediate effect is that suddenly, the image
looks a lot worse. If you look away from the monitor while you turn
on Simulate Paper White, you don't see the image dying before your
eyes, so when you go back and look at the simulation (with all white
UI hidden), it's a great deal easier to accept it as a legitimate
interpretation of the print!
That said, probably the most common profile edit I make is to the
paper white point-usually reducing the chroma by about 40%....
If you consistently print to the same paper stock, it's worth using a
monitor calibrator that lets you set the white point to a specific
xy(Y), measuring the spectral reflectance of the paper and the
spectral power distribution of the light box, then calculating the
actual paper white and using that as your monitor's white point. That
way, paper white simulation is built into the display and you don't
need to use the checkbox.
Bruce
At 12:27 AM +0200 4/16/04, neil snape wrote:
on 15/04/2004 23:24, Steven Kornreich wrote :
Paper white checked,
yuk.. It looks bad on the screen. Can't make any real decisions based on
this display.
Any suggestions?
If the paper has optical brighteners I wouldn't count on the white point to
be accurate. I rarely find the monitor tone with the white point checked to
be an accurate or even close to the real print out for any media other than
glossy stock.
Neil Snape
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