Question I have regards adjustments made to an image after applying soft proofing to optimize the image before printing as described in Michael's From Camera to Print & Screen video tutorials.
I have a standard monitor, Viewsonic VX2739wm, I calibrate it with the Color Munki Photo unit. I am printing on a Epson R3000 using Epson ICC profiles and a few custom profiles I have created with the Color Munki. I shoot with a Nikon D300, I use Lightroom 3.6 and Photoshop CS5 for processing on a Windows 7 machine.
IE: if the monitor I have is not capable of displaying all the colors of the printer/paper profile being used, wouldn't the changes I make to the image in the above scenario be in effect dumbing down to the monitor's gamut?
I have Color Think Pro 3.03 and when I look at the gamut for the Epson Luster R3000 ICC profile and the profile for the monitor I created with the Color Munki at the same time, the gamut for the printer/paper profile shows a considerable amount of colors outside the monitor profile.
I am matching print to screen in a color managed workflow now; the $64,000 question is: Am I clipping/discarding colors in my final print that may have been present in the image at times due to the limitation of my monitor when I use the soft proofing technique described above?
Three pictures attached, exports from Color Think. In the 2D image the red line is the Epson Luster paper profile, the green line is the monitor profile I created with the Color Munki. In the two 3D images, the wireframe is the Epson Luster profile and the smooth filled gamuts are the monitor profile.
Paul
Hendersonville, TN