PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
- Subject: PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
- From: "Millers' Photography L.L.C." <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:22:56 -0700
I got it!
Thank you John and Edmund!
Cheers
David
On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:02 PM, email@hidden
wrote:
From: John Gnaegy <email@hidden>
Date: July 30, 2008 6:47:06 PM PDT
To: colorsync-users List <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: PS Elements 6.0, is there any workaround to soft proof?
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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