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<blockquote data-quote="Fred Kingston" data-source="post: 723558" data-attributes="member: 10742"><p>Sure... The reason we calibrate our monitors and the reason why paper manufacturers develop create paper ICC profiles is so that when we create color images, whether on paper or for screens is so that the Red I see on my monitor is the same Red that YOU see on your monitor. The same holds true for printing. If I send an image to be printed at a service bureau, I want to be sure that the image comes back with the same Red that I saw on my monitor when I created it. Different papers handle ink differently and different monitors under different lighting conditions handle colors differently. Calibration systems adjust those colors to known calibration standards... </p><p></p><p>Lightroom lets you select the paper/monitor the image will be viewed under. This is referred to as Soft Proofing... After you've loaded your paper's ICC profiles (into Lightroom) you can select the paper your image will be printed on. You might notice a slight color and/or exposure shift when you switch between the monitor's profile and the paper's profile. If you do, you can make slight adjustments in LR with the paper's profile selected so that what you see on the screen ends up being what you see on the piece of paper.</p><p></p><p>One of the primary aspects is the light in your work area... The calibration software begins its color calibration by analyzing the ambient light that you view your monitor under and then adjusts everything from there... Laptops are sometimes problematic because they frequently get moved around and what you see in one room under less than optimum conditions will be different that if you sit outside in bright light. Some calibration software runs an agent in the background and continually monitors or periodically checks the ambient light and makes adjustments to the profile as needed.</p><p></p><p>There have been books written on this process, and a great deal of this technology is built into Lightroom. There are also several videos that walk you through the Soft proofing process/workflow for Lightroom...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fred Kingston, post: 723558, member: 10742"] Sure... The reason we calibrate our monitors and the reason why paper manufacturers develop create paper ICC profiles is so that when we create color images, whether on paper or for screens is so that the Red I see on my monitor is the same Red that YOU see on your monitor. The same holds true for printing. If I send an image to be printed at a service bureau, I want to be sure that the image comes back with the same Red that I saw on my monitor when I created it. Different papers handle ink differently and different monitors under different lighting conditions handle colors differently. Calibration systems adjust those colors to known calibration standards... Lightroom lets you select the paper/monitor the image will be viewed under. This is referred to as Soft Proofing... After you've loaded your paper's ICC profiles (into Lightroom) you can select the paper your image will be printed on. You might notice a slight color and/or exposure shift when you switch between the monitor's profile and the paper's profile. If you do, you can make slight adjustments in LR with the paper's profile selected so that what you see on the screen ends up being what you see on the piece of paper. One of the primary aspects is the light in your work area... The calibration software begins its color calibration by analyzing the ambient light that you view your monitor under and then adjusts everything from there... Laptops are sometimes problematic because they frequently get moved around and what you see in one room under less than optimum conditions will be different that if you sit outside in bright light. Some calibration software runs an agent in the background and continually monitors or periodically checks the ambient light and makes adjustments to the profile as needed. There have been books written on this process, and a great deal of this technology is built into Lightroom. There are also several videos that walk you through the Soft proofing process/workflow for Lightroom... [/QUOTE]
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