Re: MultiProfiler question
Re: MultiProfiler question
- Subject: Re: MultiProfiler question
- From: Rich Wagner <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:40:52 -0600
Andrew Rodney <email@hidden> wrote:
> IF and when Blurb actually supplies an output profile for the book printing conditions, that would be the way to go. Better if they told us what rendering intent they force on the conversions and if BPC is used or not.
They do supply a CMYK profile... and they recommend Perceptual with BPC.
http://www.blurb.com/downloads/Blurb_ICC_Profile.icc
http://www.blurb.com/guides/color_management/image_prep_pdf
Of course, if you submit a CMYK PDF, you can do the conversions to their color space any way that you want.
> This is a bit like many consumer RGB lab workflows where you’re told you have to supply documents in sRGB but to make you feel like the lab is color management aware, they will send you a profile to soft proof you can’t use anywhere else.
Sure, but even Costco can give you specific profiles for each printer/paper combination in each store - you can get an incredible match with some pretty elementary color management. (See, for example, http://www.drycreekphoto.com/icc/Profiles/Arizona_profiles.htm#AZ) Costco is a best-kept-secret for many wedding photographers. I've used it, with FTP submission of images converted to their printer space, with great results. Easy, cheap and accurate.
> Nor do we know if the profile even reflects the print conditions. I’d prefer if labs like this would just stick to novice, non color management practices and just force you to send them sRGB and skip the silly soft proof exercises. Or better, just implement a true color management workflow as many labs do; supply the actual output profile(s), let you use it to convert your data as you please and post edit that data if you desire.
My vote is for the latter. Users should hold Blurb to the fire... until they get a reasonable match. And given that Blurb does provide a profile, I'd use that for soft-proofing (in Photoshop), and if the hardcopy differs significantly from the soft proof, pressure them to re-print. It's just unfortunate that you can't do an accurate soft-proof from LR.
Blurb does have a page devoted to color management:
http://www.blurb.com/resources/color_management
They also note:
"At this time Adobe Photoshop® is the only application that we support"
They need to do some work to get the LR interface up-to-speed, including documenting a reasonable workflow.
--Rich
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