Soft Proofing

Philip Cruse

• November 07, 2017 14:19

I'm a new user, and have been trying to advise someone else about soft proofing on another thread, under my old user name. However, it occurs to me that while I know a lot about Colour Management in PS and LR, I don't know much about soft proofing in C1!

I understand that you can do it using 'Process' and 'Recipes', but can't see Rendering Intent there, or 'show paper white'.

I can see the Rendering Intents in the Print menu, which I can enlarge, but not 'show paper white'.

Also, is it possible to Save ALL of one's printer settings as C1 Presets or preferences, as they seem to change when quitting C1?

Any tips, any updates to printing in version 11?

Cheers,
Phil

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  Benjamin Liddle

  • November 07, 2017 15:30

  Capture One is, fundamentally, a raw image processor. The image you're seeing on screen is a preview of what you can expect the processed output file to be. This profile is default to Selected Recipe, meaning the recipe you have highlighted in the Process Recipes tab. The chosen profile for that recipe is used for the preview. You can also set this explicitly under View > Proof Profile.
  
  The rendering intents can be found under Capture One 10 > Preferences > Color.

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  SFA

  • November 07, 2017 15:38

  [quote="ColourPhil" wrote:
  I'm a new user, and have been trying to advise someone else about soft proofing on another thread, under my old user name. However, it occurs to me that while I know a lot about Colour Management in PS and LR, I don't know much about soft proofing in C1!
  
  I understand that you can do it using 'Process' and 'Recipes', but can't see Rendering Intent there, or 'show paper white'.
  
  I can see the Rendering Intents in the Print menu, which I can enlarge, but not 'show paper white'.
  
  Also, is it possible to Save ALL of one's printer settings as C1 Presets or preferences, as they seem to change when quitting C1?
  
  Any tips, any updates to printing in version 11?
  
  Cheers,
  Phil

  
  
  Phil,
  
  As a rule you won't see any discussion about future developments here.
  
  That said although printing crops up on the forum once in a while it does not seem to be a hot topic. I suspect that most people who have a particular interest in printing either use external services or quite specific to them RIP based processes or, from an historical starting point, Photoshop. There may be other situations too.
  
  That's quite a formidable and entrenched competition to try to advance against - it maybe a long term project.
  
  The best way to make suggestions about functionality is to create a Support Case - its the way the Phase manage almost all their user interactions.
  
  Is would guess that there are not so many requests be made that way either.
  
  On the other hand, who knows?
  
  Throw a few ideas into the ring and see what answers you get?
  
  In a Windows environment the option seems to be to make the changes to a print seup as you go or define multiple printers for the variety of print outputs one uses regularly and then just pick the printer of choice. Other software products seem to see things the same way.
  
  I'm talking Windows 7 - maybe 10 is better. I don't know.
  
  I have no idea about Mac.
  
  It's not ideal of course but is an Application independent approach.
  
  
  Grant
  
  
  ETA: I see ben's response so will add that it has alwasy been my conclusion that the ICC Profile assigned in the recipe will likely deal with the "look" of the mediafor printed output - at least in so far as it can.
  
  Other aspects seem to me to be printer driver specific and therefore printer manufacturer and model specific and thus are probably best left to the driver control software. Not an elegant solution but at least somewhat practical.

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