[Leica] Soft proofing in LR4

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

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

Soft Proofed  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/Soft+proofed.jpg.html
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Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

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