hello I'm Robin Whalley welcome to Lenscraft in my previous video I explained
soft proofing in on one photo la 20/20 and why you need to use it when printing
I also explained how to use the various options to produce an accurate soft
proof if you haven't seen that video I'll include the details in this video's
description below you'll need to know how to use these
features because today I'm explaining how to use them to prepare an image for
printing or last time I showed how different images looked when soft proof
for different papers if I'm going to print this image on photo speed natural
soft texture matte paper I'll need to make some adjustments first or it won't
look good adjusting the image to print correctly
is the important part of soft proofing that ensures your prints are accurate
looking at your image with the soft proofing turned on doesn't do anything
and neither does printing them with the soft proof turned on you must apply
adjustments to compensate for printing or the print just looks different to the
screen how different it looks though depends on the printer and the paper
you're using but it will be different when it comes to adjusting an image to
compensate for printing you don't want to adjust the original the original is
your master image and you should leave it looking the same as a reference I'll
explain what I mean by that later in the video what we'll do is create a new
version of this image that we can adjust for printing
select that image and turn on the soft proofing
if we turn on the simulate paper in ink you can see that most of the problems
are because the paper can't creates a deep enough black when I turn on the
gamut warnings in the soft proofing you can see these dark areas become
highlighted when you see this is tempting to think that you should remove
all the warnings but that's not necessarily the case
if gamut problems are causing shifts in color or issues with saturation then you
might want to fix those but in this example it's the dark beach that's
causing the issue the map paper I'm going to be printing to just can't
create an image that's not dark when I print that's using perceptual rendering
the entire image will become lighter as I explained in the previous video but to
compensate for this I'll make some adjustments to increase the contrast and
to try to darken the beach a bit more
the colors in the soft proof also look a little warmer than the original so I'll
reduce the color temperature just slightly what I'm trying to do is arrive
at an adjustment that matches the original image I want the soft proof to
look like the original unfortunately there isn't currently an option to
compare the adjusted soft proof next to the original image in on-one the best
option I can come up with is to use the thumbnail in the thumb strip so I can
compare the soft proof with my original master image which you'll remember I
call my reference point you can see here that my adjusted soft proof now looks
quite like the original image thumbnail if I toggle the soft proof off you can
see just how much darker that adjusted version of the image is now that I have
my soft proof looking how I want the print to look I'll select a print
in the print dialog you can see we have two options at the top one is to send
the print to the printer and the other to save it as a file if you're going to
be sending your image to a lab for printing or using an online printing
service don't use the file option here instead
you use the export option and generate a JPEG which you can then upload for
printing now if you're printing using the print dialog the important points
are to pick the correct printer profile to use in the color section you'll also
find the rendering intent here which I want to set a perceptual for this image
if you don't understand the difference between perceptual and relative
rendering go back and watch the previous video where I explain it finally I can
select one of the sharpening options from the drop-down list as I'm printing
some map paper I'll select the matte print option I can then print the image
using the print button although the adjusted soft proof image looks a little
bit dark when the proofing is off once it's printed the print will match the
soft proof on the screen I hope you found this video useful if you have
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watching lenscraft I'll see you next time for another video