quick question about color management

Steven31

• August 21, 2006 00:32

i'm pretty familiar with color management in PS CS, but i have an "ah ha" question about using C1 LE v3.7x.

if i set the output destination (working space) to the profile i use for my printer and paper, is that pretty much soft-proofing my image?

there is not an option for setting conversion to Relative Colormetric or Perceptual, so is that a good thing or bad thing? nor is there an option to specifiy a color engine to do the conversion.

using the printer and paper profile in C1 LE might prove to dramatically reduce workflow time.

thanks in advance

Steve

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  Steven31

  • August 21, 2006 05:33

  well, i answered my own question. it's a bad idea to do this, i forgot about using a good working space for one thing. the big issue though is that i ended up getting horrible prints, so for now it's stick to the old methods of converting and printing.

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  Anonymous

  • August 21, 2006 14:50

  sgruesen,
  
  The current workflow should include image adjustment with your printer / lab profile set in the Destination ( Working Space ) , this is the way Capture One does soft-proofing.
  However, when done, change the color space to Adobe RGB or sRGB or other desired space before processing.
  Another option is to leave the Destination ( Working Space ) setting alone, and set the Web Destination to desired color space and select this output at Process tab.
  
  Regards,
  k c

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  Steven31

  • August 21, 2006 22:17

  Ok, yes, do the soft-proof and the instead of converting to the actual printer profile, convert it to the working space so any further editing is done within a wide gamut color space and 16bit. then i shouldn't get any big surprises when printing out of say qimage.
  
  thanks.

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