Thank you, Andrew. I will review the video this afternoon. Much appreciated!
Having reviewed the video, it essentially reinforced my basic knowledge of soft proofing. But, unless I overlooked something, I am still unsure if I should uncheck the Soft Proofing checkbox in Lightroom Classic prior to uploading the soft-proofed image to the printing lab. I would appreciate your opinion on this.
Thank you so much!
Kit
Hi,
I do my own printing, and don’t use a lab. But I don’t think checking and unchecking the soft poof check box in LrC does anything at all to the soft proofed file. It merely changes how the display presents the current state of the image file. (To represent, or not, approximately how it will appear “in print” with the printer/paper icc profile you’ve selected).
Typically, the soft proofed file (with the check box unchecked) will look different from the original, usually a little brighter and depending on contrast and color adjustments, it may seem “bolder” in some ways. This is very “paper/pinter” dependent. For some papers like the barytas and platines the differences will be subtle, with matte papers it will often be pretty dramatic.
Bottom line seems to me like the lab doesn’t understand what you’re asking. If you want to test this, have two small prints made, one with your file exported with the box checked, and a second without it being checked (and use a different file name on export so you’ll know which is which). Dollars to donuts they’ll be identical.
Rand
