4 Replies Latest reply on Dec 24, 2011 6:52 PM by Marvin Nauman

Color Profile/Print color.

Marvin Nauman Dec 24, 2011 12:06 PM

After many years of reading articles and trying to get accurate prints of what I saw on my monitor (WYSIWYG)... I finally got a Spyder 3 Pro and calibrated my dual PC monitors. But now what? I thought PS and LR would auto see it and magic would happen. <BG>

I just tried some test prints... and discovered that apparently I need to:

Use sRGB
16 bit

When printing:

Let PS handle Colors
Disable Color mgt in the printer.
Printer Profile: set to my printer & Paper
(Not sure where "Rendering Intent" should be set. Perceptual or Relative Colorimetric).
"Black Point Comp..." checked.

Am I missing something here?

I also see no way that Lightroom will take advantage of the profile... or does it happen in the background.

Thanks Marv.

1. Re: Color Profile/Print color.

Jeff Schewe Dec 24, 2011 2:53 PM (in response to Marvin Nauman)

Marvin Nauman wrote:

I thought PS and LR would auto see it and magic would happen.

If properly profiled and installed, yes, PS and LR will both use your display profile. But only in displaying your image on the display, your display profile does not impact the image output...that's what the printer/paper profile is used for. So, you don't say what the prints look like relative to your display…how are they? The next step would be to learn how to use soft proofing in Photoshop (not in LR yet).
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Marvin Nauman Dec 24, 2011 5:40 PM (in response to Marvin Nauman)

The 4x6 test Print was very close.

From your experience... which is better... Perceptual or Relative Colorimetric?

Thanks Marv.
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Jeff Schewe Dec 24, 2011 6:41 PM (in response to Marvin Nauman)

Marvin Nauman wrote:

From your experience... which is better... Perceptual or Relative Colorimetric?

You won't know unless you soft proof or actually make a print with each and see what does the best job.
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Marvin Nauman Dec 24, 2011 6:52 PM (in response to Jeff Schewe)

Great. Thanks.
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