P: Add Soft Proofing

HI Anthony,

Does the plugin solution not do the job adequately?

http://www.lightroom-plugins.com/Proo...

If not, why not?

Rob

I would prefer to have basic soft proofing capability now rather than an improvement on PS capabilities sometime in the future. Perhaps the PS approach could be implemented for now? For something that's "probably one of the most requested features I’ve seen over the years" I think that would go a long way.

BTW, I'm new to this forum and it's nice to see the civil and constructive tone.

Control-Z is undo.

Having used Lightroom 3 for now about 6 weeks I wish to make the following suggestions to the Adobe programmers.
A MUST HAVE = an undo button
A MUST HAVE = real time soft proofing for output so that as an image is developed you know what it will look like in the print / web browser / other media
A GOOD IDEA = to be able to choose and save an ICC profile for each image individually. This would greatly enhance soft proofing. Adobe assumes that just one good ICC profile is suitable for all types of photograph which is of course very far from the truth.

That being said, I feel like I've already waited a long time. :-] High hopes for LR4.

Yes, this is a great time for Adobe to re-imagine how soft proofing could ideally work. When you think about all the different modules and the different proofing needs within each (sRGB in Web, Print profiles in Print, etc) it's clear that an elegant implementation is going to take time to think though. I am also willing to wait until it can be done really well.

I would like this facility in Lightroom

Thppppppp & poppy-cawck.

Continual, irrelevant self-promotion is what got you in the ordure.

BenD (or anybody else) - You could do the community a service by trying Jim's plugin and reporting back: Does this plugin do the job? should Adobe do the same thing only make it native? Or is this plugin so good that the need has really been filled so Adobe shouldn't bother? Or is this plugin sorely inadequate, and what Adobe really needs to do is...

Summary:
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When user has an FR/Idea, and another user informs of existing plugin solution, it would be good if *somebody* comes back and says: "good enough", or "yeah, but that don't really cut it...".

Adobe may make Jim's Soft Proofing plugin obsolete come Lr4 but it would be nice to know how good of a solution it is in the mean time.