Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Even after seeing Adobe's tutorial on the subject, I'm really puzzled. Allegedly, Soft Proofing is supposed to show you areas of a picture that are "out of gamut" and enable you to make minimal changes in hue or saturation to put those areas back into gamut. But doesn't gamut depend on media? That is, doesn't the gamut that can be presented depend, e.g. on the printer/paper combination or the limitations of a monitor? Since I'm viewing the picture on a monitor, what I get to see is, by definition, in gamut. Just for fun, I clicked the Soft Proofing box on the recent picture of some orchids, The blossoms were indicated to be "out of gamut" and went into gamut after I reduced the saturation to the extent that they were pale ghosts of their former beauty. The Soft Proofing option is in the Develop Module, which, to my knowledge, has no way of specifying the profile of a printer/paper combination. I can't image how one would effectively use Soft Proofing. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.