Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information