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Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications

Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications

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Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications

Let's take a look at Soft Proofing in Lightroom. This is something relatively new to Lightroom, it showed up in Version 4. And everything we do here would be similar to other RAW image editing applications, such as Aperture, Capture One, et cetera. You might notice something new down below the image when you're in the develop module in Lightroom, you see a Soft Proofing button. So let's go ahead and click this. We've got our image edited, it's ready to go. We click on Soft Proofing and as I turn that on and off, already there's a change in the image. That means it's using a paper profile to show us the effect. So up in the right-hand corner here, you see under Profile, it's got one of the papers we've been using, the ILFORD Gold Cotton Texture. Now, what I'm going to do first is I'm going to create what's called a Proof Copy. It's sort of a virtual copy of the print that will then make any adjustments you make to that image specifically for that printer profile. Now right here, notice…

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