ICC Profile for blurb
Hi everyone,
I´m using CO1 as a hobby-photographer since several months together with:
Leica M 240
Samsung 27" 4k Monitor calibrated with datacolor spyder elite
Mostly I produce photobooks with blurb bookwright.
The blurb-tool ist quite good, but the colors of the pictures are a bit dark and somtimes I miss color-brightness.
The last webinar was quite interesting because ist shows how to use icc-profiles for printing and more important for me for proofing. So I downloaded the blurb icc-profile, installed it and used it for proofing.
But it was a bad surprise 🤓 : all colore pictures are looking ugly. They show extremely low contrast, the colores are bleached or as if somebody put an gray fog over the pictures.
I tried to correct it by using the contrast and exposure tools - no success. I tried the colormanagement tool - no success.
❓ So I ask you: Is there anybody experienced with the icc-tool from blurb (its based on CMYK) or are there any tips for adjustments?
Best greetings from Linz
Andreas
I´m using CO1 as a hobby-photographer since several months together with:
Leica M 240
Samsung 27" 4k Monitor calibrated with datacolor spyder elite
Mostly I produce photobooks with blurb bookwright.
The blurb-tool ist quite good, but the colors of the pictures are a bit dark and somtimes I miss color-brightness.
The last webinar was quite interesting because ist shows how to use icc-profiles for printing and more important for me for proofing. So I downloaded the blurb icc-profile, installed it and used it for proofing.
But it was a bad surprise 🤓 : all colore pictures are looking ugly. They show extremely low contrast, the colores are bleached or as if somebody put an gray fog over the pictures.
I tried to correct it by using the contrast and exposure tools - no success. I tried the colormanagement tool - no success.
❓ So I ask you: Is there anybody experienced with the icc-tool from blurb (its based on CMYK) or are there any tips for adjustments?
Best greetings from Linz
Andreas
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Proof profiling a CMYK profile in CO8 might look unpleasant as it does not compensate for black point (or something like that). Just output your images to sRGB in the process recipe or on export. Leave the proof profile setting on Selected Recipe or sRGB (in case you use that).
Suggested reading on exporting and processing, in case you need any:
http://imagealchemist.net/capture-one-export/
http://imagealchemist.net/capture-one-process/0
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