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Improve the Printing dialog and Soft Proofing

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JSS

This request is a refresh from some previous posts - just trying to keep the pressure on.  :-)

Soft-proofing is done via recipes.  This is generally a well designed interface, but (1) there are no out-of-gamut warnings, (2) you have to go to Preferences to select the rendering intent, and (3) you can't enable black-point compression in soft-proofing (as in the print dialog).  Number (2) is particularly offensive - Preferences - really?  We should be able to switch between relative and perceptive intents with a keystroke or a single click.

You can switch between intents in the print dialog, but you only see it on a thumbnail preview.

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  • Christopher Peden

    Printing and proofing certainly needs some attention.  I find printing and proofing in Lr so much better

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  • Lily

    Hi,

    Thank you for sharing the feedback and providing suggestions for further improvements.

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  • SFA

    I though Rendering Intent was primarily the province of the printer driver when printing.

    What would be the out of gamut warnings when simulating an output? How would you display them?

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  • BeO
    Top Commenter

    SFA, when you send a file to print, rendering intent plays a role too.

    oogamut warnings: different software show them differently (grey, or a dedicated pure color), but all show it in the image like the highlight / shadow warnings.

    Whenever a software transforms colors from one color space to another, rendering intent plays in important role for the out of gamut colors (that is the colors which are in the source color space but are not in the target color space), and also for the colors close by, because some rendering intents (eg. perceptual) shifts them too, in order to "make room" for the out of gamut colors so that they still can be distinguished and don't form a uniform patch. You have at least two color space conversions, 1. from internal working space to proofing space and 2. to the monitor space.

    Ideally (probably) would be

    1. from internal working space   to color space of the file to be sent to the provider e.g. sRGB

    2. from the color space of the file to be sent to the provider   to the printer proofing space

    3. from the printer proofing space to the monitor space

    so that you can simulate the process which the printing service will do: take the provided image (eg. sRGB) and print this file

     

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