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Lightroom: Add Soft Proofing
Has anyone mentioned soft proofing yet? If not, please add it! I'm sure you will.
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JeffreyTranberry
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andrew_rodney
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clement_miller
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Andrew points out the crux of the matter ... Soft proofing is quite often one of the most requested features to be added to Lr ... and looks to be one of the most difficult features to implement ... if done well ...
I for one am willing to wait until it can be done properly, accurately ... and most important added in a manner that won't tax hardware once implemented ... a daunting task for the developers indeed ...
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jim_keir
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There is, as a plugin at http://www.lightroom-plugins.com .
(Full disclosure: I'm the author!)
Cheers,
Jim
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rob_cole_2221866
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When user has an FR/Idea, and another user informs of existing plugin solution, it would be good if *somebody* comes back and says: "good enough", or "yeah, but that don't really cut it...".
Adobe may make Jim's Soft Proofing plugin obsolete come Lr4 but it would be nice to know how good of a solution it is in the mean time.
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jennifer_roberts_2885072
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Soft proofing.
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malcolm_lyons
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A MUST HAVE = an undo button
A MUST HAVE = real time soft proofing for output so that as an image is developed you know what it will look like in the print / web browser / other media
A GOOD IDEA = to be able to choose and save an ICC profile for each image individually. This would greatly enhance soft proofing. Adobe assumes that just one good ICC profile is suitable for all types of photograph which is of course very far from the truth.
This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled
Some basic and not so basic ideas for Lightroom.
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anthony_caviglia
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BTW, I'm new to this forum and it's nice to see the civil and constructive tone.
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andrew_rodney
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http://digitaldog.net/files/LR4_softp...
Very exciting new tool that trumps soft proof in Photoshop big time (way to go LR team).
In terms of seeing the out of gamut (OOG) colors with the overlay, useful to some degree but I don’t think it is at all necessary to alter the image using HSL or other tools manually. Why? Because if you have a large gamut original and you are converting to say sRGB for the web, the conversion to sRGB will convert the data using the profile and hand this for you. Same with output to a printer. And with good profiles that take advantage of a Perceptual table, the non OOG colors may also be adjusted to attempt to honor the relationship to all colors. So it is useful to see the overlay to pick an output color space but to spend time adjusting the document to remove the overlay is I think a lot of work that is unnecessary. Gamut clipping is just a fact of life. Now if after conversion, you see something you really don’t like, and I find that very rare, by all means, try selective tools. I just don’t think you’ll find this necessary 9 times out of 10.
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