Specifications

The Digital Fine Print Course
Viewing a Fine Print
Copyright Les Walkling 2012
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Photoshop Soft Proofing with Custom Printer Profiles
Final image adjustments prior to printing should be made while viewing the screen image
‘through’ your custom printer profile for the paper you intend to print on.
1. Go to Photoshop’s ‘View > Proof Setup > Custom’ settings and select ‘Custom’:
Gamut Warning:
Use the Perceptual rendering intent to preserve the tonal differences within the image as
the ‘out-of-gamut colours’ are moved into the printer’s gamut.
2. Choose your custom printer
profile (in this case for Epson
Semigloss Photo Paper) in the
following dialogue:
3. Turning on Photoshop’s Gamut Warning will reveal any
areas of the image whose colours are outside of the gamut
of colours that the custom printer profile can accurately
reproduce. In some cases these colours are not critical to
the overall composition or meaning of the image, on other
occasions they are fundamental to its pictorial success,
and as such need to be carefully brought into gamut’.
NOTE:
Softproofing will only
be as accurate as
your monitor profile.
In all cases custom
monitor profiles are
highly recommended.