Comments In this video tutorial, (Soft Proofing in Lightroom 4), you’ll learn how Lightroom 4 enables you to soft proof your images and take complete control over a photograph’s color when publishing it to a variety of devices.
In this video tutorial, (Soft Proofing in Lightroom 4), you’ll learn how Lightroom 4 enables you to soft proof your images and take complete control over a photograph’s color when publishing it to a variety of devices.
Great tutorial as always. To bad the Print Module’s “Print Adjustment” doesn’t provide a live view of the final effect…maybe in the next version update?
I am desperate! I’ve soft-proofed to get the colors to match what I want. Yet, my royal blue continues to print-out much too dark. In the Print area I’ve boasted “Brightness” to 70. Same problem.
All other photos (underwater shots) are fine.
Please help me!
Perhaps you can use the HSL panel to selectively lighten the blue that is printing too dark?
Great tutorial!
Only question I have. What is simulate paper & ink for?
Off course I can imagine what it is for, but when I don’t own a printer and let it print by our local printstore, do I have to check on the simulate paper & ink?
I used their printprofile
@Michael: It’s hard. Screens are backlit, prints are reflected ambient light. It’s the nature of the beast. Achieving luminosity oin prints is a real challenge! Have you thought of printing on film and putting the prints in a light-box? Some people like that solution. It’s almost WYSIWYG.
One difficulty is that the icc profiles for Blurb are CMYK profiles and LR does not appear to recognize or support them. I would love to see that. But at the minimum, it might be useful to let people know that.
If you are going to create and send your books from Lightroom to Blurb, then use sRGB to soft proof in Lightroom’s Develop Module.
Great feature but I’m a bit uncertain of what I’m seeing at times.
I use a 2 monitor setup – an Apple display in front of me (main screen with Apple menu, lower quality) and a larger NEC display to my left (better quality for color correction).
On the Apple, I go into Develop, S to Softproof, create a proof copy, and toggle S on and off to adjust settings to compensate for the output profile. However the changes don’t appear to carry over to the NEC monitor when I toggle S.
Iif I click on the original in the filmstrip below, then the proof copy, I see the two different versions on the NEC, but the Softproof setting seems to stay on or off all the time. So I’m never sure if I’m looking at a Softproof version of the original or proof, or a non-Softproof original or proof, on the NEC.
Also, I used to do this in Photoshop by creating a duplicate image to soft proof while looking at the unaltered original at the same time. In LR4, Is there a way to have side by side copies of the original and proof copy side by side, with the profile active on the proof only, and still be able to adjust the proof copy settings only?
Lastly, the background color options are light/medium/dark gray for non-Softproof viewing, and various numerical percentages for Softproof viewing. I think they should be the same to avoid confusion.
Thanks,
Perry