Re: MultiProfiler question
Re: MultiProfiler question
- Subject: Re: MultiProfiler question
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 06:16:38 -0700 (PDT)
I think this is the key issue. Adobe and Blurb have signed-up to offer an integrated service that has a big technical gap in it called "proper soft-proofing". This should be fixed in some kind of collaborative effort between them - whatever is easier - a sufficiently accurate RGB profile that works in LR, or an LR adaptation to read their CMYK profile. When migrating from display to printed book there is enough difference of image appearance to warrant a special effort to fix this. For now we have three choices (1) don't softproof and see what happens, (2) find an RGB profile that comes closest to the effect of their CMYK profile, or (3) export every image to Photoshop for softproofing using their profile and re-import it to LR for exporting over to Blurb. I tried #2 and found it worked well enough. #3 in principle should be more accurate but it is a nuisance and defeats the purpose of the integration between Blurb and LR. And yes, if Blurb is producing
sub-par output, customers should hold their feet to the fire.
Mark
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From: Rich Wagner <email@hidden>
To: email@hidden
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2012 1:40:52 AM
Subject: Re: MultiProfiler question
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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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