Re: Eizo monitors and Off-Set Soft-Proofing
Re: Eizo monitors and Off-Set Soft-Proofing
- Subject: Re: Eizo monitors and Off-Set Soft-Proofing
- From: Andrew Rodney <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 04:35:00 -0700
- Thread-topic: Eizo monitors and Off-Set Soft-Proofing
Title: Re: Eizo monitors and Off-Set Soft-Proofing
On 1/28/07 1:13 AM, "edmund ronald" wrote:
The PS Preview feels bad - it's an unconvincing simulation. It doesn't
feel like the file but it doesn't feel like paper either. This may
explain why Vanita's retouchers feel so strongly that they want their
screens re-adjusted.
It feels bad for several reasons. First, the soft proof is far more accurate when you use the simulate check boxes and this illustrates that reality sucks! The dynamic range of the display is WAY over the top in terms of its matching the reference media of the print. The simulate check boxes take this into account. But watching this update is why many of us call this the ‘make my image ugly’ button. If you simply ignore the update on screen, that helps. But a bigger issue is NOT having any UI elements shown since the white can’t undergo this simulation and you can’t stop from adapting from this white instead of the white in your image. That pretty much dictates using this soft proof option for full screen mode with no palettes. Great for examining the screen and then the print (let your eyes adapt again) and for showing clients. For retouch work, not at all useful unfortunately. But I’d still keep the soft proof on for one copy of the image and off on a dupe while you try to edit the first file to look closer to the 2nd. Then that 2nd file has the edits necessary based on the output and soft proof.
Speaking of soft proof, the new Print (formally Print with Preview) in CS3 does show a soft proof. But the Simulation is on, can’t be turned off and I think this is a big mistake in this dialog. I’ve made my case for keeping this part of the soft proof off in Print but I don’t think the Adobe team agrees so it will be interesting how the market reacts to this new ‘feature’.
Andrew Rodney
Author "Color Management for Photographers"
http://www.digitaldog.net/
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