P: Add Soft Proofing

Hi Kevin,

Do you have the latest updates for Bridge CC installed? Have you installed all the Camera Raw updates?

What OS/version are you running Bridge on?

Did Bridge ever work on this system? Does this happen with all files or only specific files?

Ahh...this toggling already exists in LR and I didn't know about it, it's the backslash key (\)........now softproofing in LR is all that I wanted.

Thanks to all involved for the new soft proofing tools in LR4. I would vainly like to ask for one added feature related to it. In PS CS5 when softproofing, I don't line up the orig file and the reference copy side by side when comparing the two images, I tab them both and toggle between them quickly using Ctrl-Shift-Tab, this allows me to see small differences in tone and colour much more easily than scanning between two side by side images. This is the way most telecine and digital film grading is done when wanting to compare two colour grades, that's how I got used to it. It would be great if one could do this in LR4....or am I the only person doing this..?

Here is a 2nd video that I think illustrates why trying to manually deal with OOG colors is not all that useful:

http://digitaldog.net/files/LR4_softp...

By all means, test the waters yourself and report back.

Absolutely. No reason to build a single adjustment for one image while soft proofing and having to reinvent the wheel again.

Andrew, can we save softproof target-specific presets after making adjustments. I'm imagining a kind of virtual copy of a basic preset.

In other words if I achieve my creative objective with a single preset, it would be great to have a variation of that preset a specific soft proofing space for resuse

hope that made sense

Cool. That means a lot to the team, coming from you. Thanks for posting more info.

Here is another soft proof video:
http://digitaldog.net/files/LR4_softp...

Very exciting new tool that trumps soft proof in Photoshop big time (way to go LR team).

In terms of seeing the out of gamut (OOG) colors with the overlay, useful to some degree but I don’t think it is at all necessary to alter the image using HSL or other tools manually. Why? Because if you have a large gamut original and you are converting to say sRGB for the web, the conversion to sRGB will convert the data using the profile and hand this for you. Same with output to a printer. And with good profiles that take advantage of a Perceptual table, the non OOG colors may also be adjusted to attempt to honor the relationship to all colors. So it is useful to see the overlay to pick an output color space but to spend time adjusting the document to remove the overlay is I think a lot of work that is unnecessary. Gamut clipping is just a fact of life. Now if after conversion, you see something you really don’t like, and I find that very rare, by all means, try selective tools. I just don’t think you’ll find this necessary 9 times out of 10.

Soft Proofing is here; http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/li...