P: Add Soft Proofing to Lightroom Desktop

I seriously have no clue how this feature is such a low priority and users must vote to have this added. It really bugs my mind! I have opened a thread for adding soft proofing to. the desktop app today and Rikk Flohr has been kind enough to merge my thoughts with this thread, however, seeing only 9 upvotes during the past 16 months for this request either makes me think no professional uses Lightroom desktop or no experienced users tries bothering with the Community boards at Adobe and either is like my using Lightroom Classic or Capt**e One 😉

The Lightroom cloud based app and its features have come along way and I really enjoy the direction Adobe went with it. Especially the latest features which add a seamless integration of local folder structures so you can easy edit and transfer files into and from the cloud. Lightroom really has become a photo culling software just like Bridge but with the power of a photo editor. I love this!

However, what really keeps me going back to Lightroom Classic time and again is the point that Adobe neglects soft proofing in Lightroom (cloud based) which is crucial to photographers like me who print their photos on a large scale. I really wish this feature to be added in the next release so I can finally make the switch.

I know you can argue that you can do the detour through Photoshop and do the proofing there but this voids the purpose of Lightroom's capabilities and their streamlined approach to photo editing.

surprised there hasn't been a feature request before. I remember many times questions on this forum like "where did soft proofing go", "I am trying to soft proof but it is not where the video says it should be", etc. The answer invariably is that you need to use Classic of course but perhaps it should be that "for now it is a Classic only feature and you should submit a feature request."

I don't yet have my screen calibrated because I am brand new to all of this, so I'm still learning, but I plan to do it soon once I understand better what the best product for that is.

 

By @KG_BK

And therein lies the real problem when we share images for viewing on a screen of some kind. The majority of users will not have calibrated their screens (many will not even have heard of screen calibration), so we have no control over how well (or badly) our images will look on their screens. So unless you know that a specific user uses a certain type of monitor, which is calibrated correctly, the best we can reasonable do when exporting for screen viewing is to export to sRGB and hope for the best.....after ensuring that our own screens are properly calibrated, of course.

@JohanElzenga 

Thank you! This solves the problem, though I still think Lightroom Cloud should have a proofing option, so I don't have to switch my monitor. (Unless... is switching the monitor standard workflow? Is that what most people are doing?)

I don't yet have my screen calibrated because I am brand new to all of this, so I'm still learning, but I plan to do it soon once I understand better what the best product for that is.

Even though I had been playing around in those monitor settings a few weeks back, I didn't know what I was doing, because I hadn't yet learned about color spaces, so now that I do, it makes total sense. The solution was under my nose the whole time! Thank you for prompting me to go back there! 

@Rikk Flohr: Photography 

Thank you. And, wow. I wonder why they haven't. This is exactly what makes me think I must be missing something. A commenter below suggests switching my monitor to show only sRGB (and that does what I want!). Still, when I want to switch tasks and do other things on my computer apart from using Lightroom, unless I want only to see things in sRGB, I have to remember to switch the monitor back each time.  

Probably the biggest reason is few are asking for it. In 5 plus years, no one has managed to fill out a feature request for this functionality. I've converted your post to the authoritative feature request so that others can vote and add their voices. Please add your vote at the top.