[Leica] Soft proofing in LR4

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

Herb,

Soft Proof simulates what you will see on a particular output device.
Obviously the simulation is not 100% as in the end, you are seeing it on
your monitor.

So #1, your monitor must be calibrated.

#2, soft proofing is to a particular profile so that profile better be good
also.

Forget about the out of gamut issue for the moment, especially if you are
soft-proofing to the sRGB web display. The important thing there is just to
see whether the result is pleasing or not. If not, then you work on a
virtual copy with that soft proofing enabled so that it looks good. The out
of gamut is just the areas where you may want to pay extra attention and
not the ONLY area you should pay attention to.

Hope this helps.


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:

> After seeing the tutorial on soft proofing, I was inspired to try it out,
> with some strange results.
>
> Let me start with my understanding of the tutorial and please correct me
> if I misunderstood it. The situation is that the color range in the picture
> is out of gamut for a particular printer profile. Therefore, what gets
> printed will not match what has been seen in the monitor using LR (of
> course, it's undoubtedly out of gamut on the monitor also, so all we can
> say is that the print won't match what was seen on the monitor, and
> presumably may not even after doing soft proofing corrections). So, what
> can soft proofing do for me. As far as I can tell, it allows me to choose
> which I think might look better: getting areas in gamut by reducing
> saturation, or getting them in gamut by modifying hue. Again, because the
> monitor profile is not the same as the printing profile, I think one would
> actually have to try printing both ways in order to decide.
>
> Now, here is where I'm completely puzzled. It is the idea of applying soft
> proofing to sRGB. I've calibrated my monitor with a Spyder. I tried soft
> proofing on a flower picture. A gross reduction in saturation was required
> before the "out of gamut" red flagging went away. I saved the corrected and
> uncorrected versions as jpg and here they are. Go figure!!
>
> Straight export 
> http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/herbk1/As+is.jpg.html<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/As+is.jpg.html>
>
> Soft Proofed  http://gallery.leica-users.**org/v/herbk1/Soft+proofed.jpg.*
> *html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Soft+proofed.jpg.html>
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