P: Add Soft Proofing

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Warning: It really aggravates some forumers.

People who find their needs met by plugins they otherwise wouldn't have known about, are always grateful.

Warning: It really aggravates some forumers (or did I already mention that?)

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Hi,

There is, as a plugin at http://www.lightroom-plugins.com .

(Full disclosure: I'm the author!)

Cheers,
Jim

I agree to adding the feature to a point ...

Andrew points out the crux of the matter ... Soft proofing is quite often one of the most requested features to be added to Lr ... and looks to be one of the most difficult features to implement ... if done well ...

I for one am willing to wait until it can be done properly, accurately ... and most important added in a manner that won't tax hardware once implemented ... a daunting task for the developers indeed ...

Ahhh. I see what you're saying. Yes, that would be much better than PS and an excellent way to implement it. I've always been curious though... it seems like if the program is capable of displaying the results of applying a profile during soft proofing, couldn't it also calculate the necessary adjustments to bring the virtual copy you suggested in line with the original... or as close as possible ex-gamut issues etc? Since that's what i end up doing during soft proofing, an "Auto-adjust based XXX profile" option would also be a time saver.

Well for one, I’d want a true before and after preview whereby I could turn on the soft proof and apply output specific edits parametrically, and see the ‘before’ image without the soft proof on as I produce these edits. The edits would be output profile specific. So I’d like something akin to virtual copies where I could build output specific edits based on each soft proof. It be great too if I could copy and paste the edits onto other images I want to print. It be cool to see on-screen, a soft proof with say Perceptual and Relative Colorimetric side by side to make the decision as to what to use easier.

Yeah... sorry, I meant specific to this Facebook Feedback forum. In any case, I'm curious to know more specifics of what you'd improve from Photoshop soft-proofing if it were implemented in LR?

Its been mentioned in many forums for a long time. So yes, its probably one of the most requested features I’ve seen over the years. But doing it correctly isn’t easy. LR has to improve soft proofing we have in Photoshop, deal with doing so parametrically, give us good before and after results etc. Not easy but doable and I really hope and expect to see it in 4.0.