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export with a icc-profile for BLURB

Uwe Roeder
Hi there,

I imported and installed a BLURB icc-profile and when exporting, this icc profile is not shown in the drop-down-menu in colour profiles.

Has anybody an advice on how to do that?
Thanks in advance and Kind Regards,
Uwe
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Hi Uwe,

    Where did you install your Blurb profile ? I did the same, but I had to localise it precisely, as it is a CMYK profile.
    When you register your Blurb recipe, you must check the whole list of profiles, including "show all", if you want to add it to the list.
    Robert

    Edit : I have checked where my Blurb profile was. It is in the ColorSync -> profiles folder.
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  • Uwe Roeder
    Hi Robert,

    I got that profile directly from Blurb. I have installed it on my machine, where all my other profiles are installed, I get asked for admin password and it should work, I guessed.

    C1 does not show that profile but all the others. Even "show all" does not show all.
    That´s why I´m asking. I even restart C1 but no Blurb Profile.

    It is installed in my …-Library-ColorSync-Profiles-Recommended. And in the main profiles folder …-Library-ColorSync-Profiles. It does not show, if it is installed once or twice.

    Thanks for getting back anyway.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    By the way, the Blurb profile should be used only for having a look at what can be expected in your planned book, using the proof profile tool (spectacles), but NOT to be included in your exported pictures to be edited by Blurb. They need sRGB pictures and no more. My purpose in posting that is related with your thread title "export with a icc-profile for BLURB".
    Robert
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  • Uwe Roeder
    All Blurb books are printed in a CMYK color space. Books that are created in RGB will be converted to CMYK before printing. I would recommend creating your book in CMYK and soft proofing your colors before you upload your book. You can soft-proof colors directly in BookWright by going to BookWright>Preferences and then clicking "Show Soft Proof".

    Blurb also offers an ICC profile that you can download into Photoshop, so that you can soft proof your images there. I've attached the ICC profile here.


    That`s what´s said by Blurb, that´s why I´m asking. I asked them as well, wether to export as sRGB/RGB/CMYK.

    In my "Recipe" register there are only all camera profiles listed buit nothing that has to do with CMYK or any of my icc-profiles.

    Kind Regards,
    Uwe
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="Uwe-R-from-Btown" wrote:
    All Blurb books are printed in a CMYK color space. Books that are created in RGB will be converted to CMYK before printing. I would recommend creating your book in CMYK and soft proofing your colors before you upload your book. You can soft-proof colors directly in BookWright by going to BookWright>Preferences and then clicking "Show Soft Proof".

    Blurb also offers an ICC profile that you can download into Photoshop, so that you can soft proof your images there. I've attached the ICC profile here.


    That`s what´s said by Blurb, that´s why I´m asking. I asked them as well, wether to export as sRGB/RGB/CMYK.

    Kind Regards,
    Uwe


    Yes Uwe, what Blurb says is correct : they print in CMYK, and if you want to have an idea of your book once printed, you should then work and soft proof your images using their CMYK Blurb profile. But you should send them sRGB pictures and book, otherwise it could result in some unwanted colour casts. At least this is what I did when I sent them my last book (2 years ago...), after having read their recommendations. I think you could find more information on their website about what they need, as they could have changed ? But I doubt : plenty of photographers asking Blurb for a print don't know anything about CMYK and send their smartphone images...... in sRGB of course.
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="Uwe-R-from-Btown" wrote:

    In my "Recipe" register there are only all camera profiles listed buit nothing that has to do with CMYK or any of my icc-profiles.

    Kind Regards,
    Uwe


    Are you sure you are looking at the Recipe ICC-profiles ? In my configuration, the camera profiles can be reached only using the ICC-profile field in the "base characteristics" tool, and the output ICC-profiles (including the CMYK Blurb profile) only in the ICC-profile field of the recipe, where I can't find any of my camera profiles.
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  • Uwe Roeder
    [quote="tenmangu81" wrote:
    [quote="Uwe-R-from-Btown" wrote:

    In my "Recipe" register there are only all camera profiles listed buit nothing that has to do with CMYK or any of my icc-profiles.

    Kind Regards,
    Uwe


    Are you sure you are looking at the Recipe ICC-profiles ? In my configuration, the camera profiles can be reached only using the ICC-profile field in the "base characteristics" tool, and the output ICC-profiles (including the CMYK Blurb profile) only in the ICC-profile field of the recipe, where I can't find any of my camera profiles.


    Could you shed some light into the recipes? Where can I find it? As you mentioned correctly, I find it in the base characteristics. I am on a wrong path, obviously.
    Might be difficult for me to find the correct wording in German, but I´ll try hard.
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  • Uwe Roeder
    [quote="tenmangu81" wrote:
    [quote="Uwe-R-from-Btown" wrote:
    All Blurb books are printed in a CMYK color space. Books that are created in RGB will be converted to CMYK before printing. I would recommend creating your book in CMYK and soft proofing your colors before you upload your book. You can soft-proof colors directly in BookWright by going to BookWright>Preferences and then clicking "Show Soft Proof".

    Blurb also offers an ICC profile that you can download into Photoshop, so that you can soft proof your images there. I've attached the ICC profile here.


    That`s what´s said by Blurb, that´s why I´m asking. I asked them as well, wether to export as sRGB/RGB/CMYK.

    Kind Regards,
    Uwe


    Yes Uwe, what Blurb says is correct : they print in CMYK, and if you want to have an idea of your book once printed, you should then work and soft proof your images using their CMYK Blurb profile. But you should send them sRGB pictures and book, otherwise it could result in some unwanted colour casts. At least this is what I did when I sent them my last book (2 years ago...), after having read their recommendations. I think you could find more information on their website about what they need, as they could have changed ? But I doubt : plenty of photographers asking Blurb for a print don't know anything about CMYK and send their smartphone images...... in sRGB of course.


    Thanks for that. So far I exported all images in sRGB, yes. Let´s see what comes up from support from Blurb. I´ll pass it here as well, of course. Further down is an additional post about the recipes, which I cannot find at the moment - maybe because of German-English-…?

    Kind Regards and Thanks,
    Uwe
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  • Uwe Roeder
    Could you shed some light into the recipes? Where can I find it? As you mentioned correctly, I find it in the base characteristics. I am on a wrong path, obviously.
    Might be difficult for me to find the correct wording in German, but I´ll try hard.


    I found it in "Ausgabe" (-like Output): Now I also found the Blurb Profile - I´ll check and see how it appears in Blurbs Bookwright.

    Thanks for that,
    Uwe
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  • Permanently deleted user
    [quote="Uwe-R-from-Btown" wrote:
    Could you shed some light into the recipes? Where can I find it? As you mentioned correctly, I find it in the base characteristics. I am on a wrong path, obviously.
    Might be difficult for me to find the correct wording in German, but I´ll try hard.


    I found it in "Ausgabe" (-like Output): Now I also found the Blurb Profile - I´ll check and see how it appears in Blurbs Bookwright.

    Thanks for that,
    Uwe


    Yes, that's it !!
    Glad you solved your problem.
    Robert
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  • Uwe Roeder
    Hi Robert,

    thanks for the hint with the recipes - I must admit that I lost this feature out of my eyes. It seems also more stable than the " normal" export feature so far.

    Kind Regards,
    Uwe
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