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Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications
From the course: Learning Color Management
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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Choosing the best printer4m 37s
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Exploring the benefits of custom printer profiles3m 29s
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Comparing factory printer profiles to real-world printer profiles5m 31s
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Creating a printer profile with ColorMunki Photo5m 45s
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Creating a printer profile with i1Pro5m 13s
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Understanding color gamut and rendering intents3m 20s
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Soft proofing images in Photoshop6m 18s
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Getting prints that match the image in the soft proof3m 4s
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Soft proofing for lab printing and for the web3m 41s
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Soft proofing in Lightroom and other raw processing applications6m 16s
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Choosing the right fine-art paper7m
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