Re: Soft-proof copying in Photoshop
Re: Soft-proof copying in Photoshop
- Subject: Re: Soft-proof copying in Photoshop
- From: Steve Upton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:12:37 -0700
On Jul 29, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Spinnaker Photo Imaging Center <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi Steve. Please comment on what I am doing. I was never taught this in seminars I attended.
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> You might have noticed my earlier question about soft proofing and attempting to use some kind of numbers to have the soft proof out of the printer, look like what I see on the monitor.
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> One of the suggestions was (and I used this suggestion today) in PS CS5, go to edit > convert to profile and choose the custom .icc printer/paper/ink profile I created. These appears to to give the same looking image as soft proofing.
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> Please comment. And I thank you for all you do for color community.
Hi David,
This is, as you suspected, Color Management 101-level stuff. But that doesn't decrease it's importance - or it's ability to confuse.
Mainly, don't forget that RGB and CMYK are NOT colors, they are device-flavored settings. For quick review see <http://www.colorwiki.com/wiki/The_Color_of_Toast>
Photoshop makes it easy to soft proof what something might look like (colors) when printed to a specific device. It does this behind the scenes though, so unless you plan for it (different dropper settings), dropper values are still your file's original device values.
Converting to your output profile "manually" will certainly give you your final output numbers but it's fairly dangerous as accidentally saving that file will forever relegate your file's gamut to that of your printer. ugh! So tread carefully or use a duplicate of your file.
When dealing with non-colormanaged output destinations (like the web), it is wise to convert "by hand" in Photoshop as I explained in my previous email. The path I suggested, file->outputProfile -> sRGB is similar to Photoshop's soft proofing mechanism though PS would end in your monitor profile rather than sRGB. The main difference is that your file is now permanently in color-effected sRGB. Color-effected meaning that it captures the effect of printing to your special-case output device and it's in sRGB for the web.
I hope this clears things up.. if not, ask away!
regards,
Steve
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