When you set up your soft-proof (View > Proof Set-Up > Custom Setting, etc, etc), also set up your Info Panel to give you the R/G/B (or C/M/Y/K) readouts for the soft-proof situation by choosing Proof Color as your second read-out. This should give you accurate numbers. Hope that helps. Rick On Jul 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com wrote:

What I cannot understand is why the values on the gray patch are still the same as without the paper profile applied. With eye dropper on the gray patch or on the sky or anywhere, there is no change in the values.

RICK MCCLEARY AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY www.rickmccleary.com 540.454.7180 Member, ASMP, DC Chapter Author, CMYK 2.0: A Cooperative Workflow for Photographers, Designers, and Printers A Peachpit Press book ______________________ On Jul 26, 2013, at 3:00 PM, colorsync-users-request@lists.apple.com wrote:

What I cannot understand is why the values on the gray patch are still the same as without the paper profile applied. With eye dropper on the gray patch or on the sky or anywhere, there is no change in the values.