Soft Proofing - I've been doing it wrong all along

[digitaldog]

If soft proofing in ACR yields discernibly  higher quality (ie, sharpness and color accuracy), as Metternich purports...

The color accuracy claim is BS without some colorimetric feedback. Be careful when people use the term color accuracy instead of admitting they have a color preference which is totally subjective. I haven't seen the video (isn't it fee based?) but if the author states anything about color accuracy, he needs to back that up with actual measurement data and dE metrics. Which often has little to do with subjective color preference.

[texshooter]

The color accuracy claim is BS without some colorimetric feedback. Be careful when people use the term color accuracy instead of admitting they have a color preference which is totally subjective. I haven't seen the video (isn't it fee based?) but if the author states anything about color accuracy, he needs to back that up with actual measurement data and dE metrics. Which often has little to do with subjective color preference.

He did not use the term "color accuracy."  That was an inference made by me.   Nontheless,  he strongly recommends to start soft proofing in ACR.  He did not say specifically why.  He typically prints very large so perhaps his work flow  minimizes interpolation artifacts. I'm not sure.

[digitaldog]

He did not use the term "color accuracy."  That was an inference made by me.

Fine, don't use it  . As I said, the term is rather bogus.

He did not say specifically why.  He typically prints very large so perhaps his work flow  minimizes interpolation artifacts. I'm not sure.

Trust but verify...

[Schewe]

He typically prints very large so perhaps his work flow  minimizes interpolation artifacts. I'm not sure.

Did he bother to say how he up samples? In ACR? (hint, I do it in Lightroom because it's better).

[texshooter]

Did he bother to say how he up samples? In ACR? (hint, I do it in Lightroom because it's better).

Bicubic smoother in PS.  But then I forget which version of PS he was using at the time he made the video. 

[Alan Klein]

Maybe he soft proofs from the beginning because he always prints the same way on the same type paper and same printer.  So for him that works. 

[Tony Jay]

Maybe he soft proofs from the beginning because he always prints the same way on the same type paper and same printer.  So for him that works.

This still seems nonsensical to me.
What about output to the web or other electronic device?
Softproofing is not just about printing.

Much better to do what Jeff Schewe suggests: create a master image and then create softproofs from there for whatever output is required. It is very useful to softproof while comparing the master and the softproof copy - that is how one gets the softproof as close to the master as possible - and by extension the print or the electronic display version.

Tony Jay