Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/10

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Subject: [Leica] LR4 Soft Proofing
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 22:37:35 -0700
References: <C9E60F39-3530-480E-AF86-F25B565B2A76@acm.org> <CAF8hL-E+8GD1Xyj0VSL8ZE9-=abkx2pCW1DWv0NBk_UyfOSiVg@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks, Richard. I seem to specialize in overlooking needed sections of the 
right-hand panel. This is not the first time.

Herb

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




On Oct 10, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Herb, on the upper right of the Develop panel, if you enable "Soft
> Proofing," it has "Create Proof" and you can select which profile you are
> soft proofing. Most of the time, you would select your paper/printer
> combination that you are printing on.
> 
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
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In reply to: Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] LR4 Soft Proofing)
Message from richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man) ([Leica] LR4 Soft Proofing)