Soft-proofing & multiple output processing recipes

Russell McGonagle

• March 31, 2016 21:22

The way that I understand it, the color space that is use for soft-proofing is determined by which process recipe that is selected (highlighted in orange) in output process tab. That said, if I need to output using multiple recipes (i.e. AdobeRGB 16bit tif for retouching and sRGB jpegs for web site proofs), should I be creating a separate variant for each profile to output? If create separate variant for each color space, can multiple color spaces be output at the same time using the different recipes and still be accurately output?

Russell

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  H. Cremers

  • April 01, 2016 18:38

  modshot wrote:
  The way that I understand it, the color space that is use for soft-proofing is determined by which process recipe that is selected (highlighted in orange) in output process tab. That said, if I need to output using multiple recipes (i.e. AdobeRGB 16bit tif for retouching and sRGB jpegs for web site proofs), should I be creating a separate variant for each profile to output? If create separate variant for each color space, can multiple color spaces be output at the same time using the different recipes and still be accurately output?
  
  Russell

  
  
  You can set which profile is going to be used in View - Proof Profile. It can indeed be dependent on the selected recipe (only one will be selected (highlighted recipe), more can be chosen for output (check mark)), but one can also positively choose one recipe, or a dedicated colour profile.
  
  I believe there is more info in some posts on this forum.

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  SFA

  • April 02, 2016 01:17

  I don't think there is a simple answer to this question.
  
  To put that another way - there is A simple answer but it may not be THE simple answer.
  
  Some parameters can be adjusted by output recipe others not.
  
  So, for example, if you wanted to create multiple A4 print ready files but tuned for different paper types you could, in theory, generate a recipe for each paper type and process them all from the same well balanced original file.
  
  However if for each "paper" type you wanted to tune, say, sharpening then all you have in the recipe is on or off and that might not be what you need for optimum results.
  
  Similarly if you are preparing an image to be sent to a file but ultimately also printed to different paper sizes you might wish to have a variant for each output file one that is cropped specifically for the dimensions of each size.The crop ratio is a Variant feature not a process recipe feature, so if you want to crop images to certain sizes rather than have C1 make an existing crop fit within. Refining settings to the size of an image or display can also be vital for some images, affecting both sharpening and colours.
  
  There are other considerations that are similar in terms of how you handle them.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

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  Russell McGonagle

  • April 04, 2016 12:23

  HCS wrote:
  
  
  You can set which profile is going to be used in View - Proof Profile. It can indeed be dependent on the selected recipe (only one will be selected (highlighted recipe), more can be chosen for output (check mark)), but one can also positively choose one recipe, or a dedicated colour profile.
  
  I believe there is more info in some posts on this forum.

  
  
  
  Thanks for the reminder on selecting the Proof Profile in the View Menu. Doing this is similar to selecting the working color space in Photoshop, correct? Setting this to something like AdobeRGB, making the edits and then output processing to various color spaces at the same time, Capture One handles all the conversions to the variants simultaneously?

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  Russell McGonagle

  • April 04, 2016 12:33

  SFA wrote:
  I don't think there is a simple answer to this question.
  
  To put that another way - there is A simple answer but it may not be THE simple answer.
  
  Some parameters can be adjusted by output recipe others not.
  
  So, for example, if you wanted to create multiple A4 print ready files but tuned for different paper types you could, in theory, generate a recipe for each paper type and process them all from the same well balanced original file.
  
  However if for each "paper" type you wanted to tune, say, sharpening then all you have in the recipe is on or off and that might not be what you need for optimum results.
  
  Similarly if you are preparing an image to be sent to a file but ultimately also printed to different paper sizes you might wish to have a variant for each output file one that is cropped specifically for the dimensions of each size.The crop ratio is a Variant feature not a process recipe feature, so if you want to crop images to certain sizes rather than have C1 make an existing crop fit within. Refining settings to the size of an image or display can also be vital for some images, affecting both sharpening and colours.
  
  There are other considerations that are similar in terms of how you handle them.
  
  HTH.
  
  
  Grant

  
  
  
  Thanks Grant! The timing on this couldn't have been better. I'm starting to look at a printing workflow that would include Capture One and Printer Hot Folders.
  
  R

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