Soft proofing not showing the effect of my new profile in LR CC

[Anil Kalagatla]

I recently created a new profile for a canvas/ink combination using an i1 Pro 2 and with 2500 patches.  Unfortunately this does not seem to be properly recognized by LR when enable soft proofing.  The picture does change, but it looks slightly brighter and with higher contrast (which is strange for a canvas profile).  And when I do actually print an image, the colors turned out okay but the print came out "faded" (as I would expect for a canvas print that has not been soft proofed properly).  Could it be because the profile is so big (it was ~3.2MB)?  I had previously created a smaller profile with 650 patches and it worked fine (though it had severe posterization in blacks, and that's why I went with a 2500 patch profile).

Any ideas?  I've attached the profile in question.

Thanks!
Anil

[JRSmit]

Is it icc v2 or icc v4?

[Wayne Fox]

Could it be because the profile is so big (it was ~3.2MB)?  I had previously created a smaller profile with 650 patches and it worked fine (though it had severe posterization in blacks, and that's why I went with a 2500 patch profile).

To answer that question, no.  I make profiles with 4000-6000 patches frequently.  I don’t believe the profile size has that much to do with the number of patches.  When you create the profile there are settings to choose a “size” and granularity (16 or 8 bit). I’ve always assumed they affect the final profile size, but always just pick optimize quality which sets those to large and 16 bit.

As Jan mentioned I would check that you created a version 2 profile, i1Profiler defaults to a version 4 which isn’t compatible with most software.

[Anil Kalagatla]

Ah interesting.., opening the profile in the ColorSync tool, I see that the profile is version 4.2.0.  FWIW, the profile is being correctly applied during printing (and the colors seem to accurate, except for blacks, which render as muddy greys).