Re: PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
Re: PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
- Subject: Re: PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
- From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:47:06 -0700
On Jul 29, 2008, at 8:15 PM, edmund ronald wrote:
Preview > Tools > Match To Profile
Then select the printer profile from the pop-ups (RGB or CMYK)
And stare at the screen.
That is a valid workflow for a soft proof. You're matching from the
embedded source profile in the image to the printer profile, and then
from the printer profile to the display profile.
I did what you suggested, saved, and reopened in CS 3. Not good!
David
The accuracy of this depends of course on having a valid source
profile for the image, and depends on the printer profile. All
printer profiles should ideally have two halves. One is used to
match image data from a device indepent space like Lab to a device
dependent space like CMYK. This half in the metaphor is described in
the B2An tags, and they're usually accurate since they're used all the
time when converting data to a form ready to be printed.
The other half which is described in the A2Bn tags is used to match
image data from a device dependent space like CMYK to a device
independent space like Lab, so that it can be matched later from Lab
to RGB for viewing on a display. These tags aren't used all the time
since they're only useful for proofing. Sometimes they're not that
accurate.
I don't know if that's what's happening for you, but I've seen that
happen in the past when I've tried to soft proof a decent CMYK profile
that looked bad when converted back to RGB. But apart from that, and
barring other unknown variables, matching an image in Preview to a
CMYK profile and viewing the resulting image in Preview is a soft
proof. If you save the image at that point you'll have a CMYK file.
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