Who is correct? Grok Ai vs Martin Evening's LR 5 book re: LR compensates the shadow point for print

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March 29, 2025
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Hi,

In Martin Evening's "photoshop lightroom 5 book" pg 219 it goes "LR and PS are able to automatically compensate the shadow point every time you send a file to the desktop printer or you convert an image to cmyk (im assuming it wont do this if you send a RGB photo to a lab printer?). LR's color management system always ensures that the blackest blacks you set in the basic panel faithfully print as black and preserve all the shadow detail". Now this book is from 2013 so I don't know if it applies to the current LR classic of today.

I asked Grok Ai and it said LR doesnt do this -- so my question is does what martin said still apply to LR today? thanks

Correct answer Ian Lyons

CMYK support was removed from Lightroom 2015.6 / 6.6

Ian Lyons

Correct answer

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CMYK support was removed from Lightroom 2015.6 / 6.6

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HmmokthenAuthor

Inspiring

thanks for the info. Do you know whether LR and PS are able to automatically compensate the shadow point every time you send a file to the desktop printer?

Conrad_C

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There is a message in Lightroom Classic that shows that black point compensation is applied when print colors are managed by Lightroom Classic (when a printer profile is selected). This is shown in a post in this forum with a screen shot of the message in the Print module:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/black-point-compensation-in-print-module/m-p/14316015#M350180

If colors are printer-managed, then it's up to what the settings are in the printer driver software options.

In Photoshop, in the Print dialog box there is a Black Point Compensation option in the Color Management section, so you can enable or disable it. I think it’s enabled by default. As in Lightroom Classic, the Black Point Compensation option is unavailable if you chose Printer Manages Colors.

Also, this can depend on the Rendering Intent you choose. If you choose Absolute Colorimetric in Photoshop, Black Point Compensation is not available, because that’s part of the point of using Absolute Colorimetric.

So in short, whether or not Black Point Compensation happens or is even available depends on whether you have the application or the printer driver manage the color conversion, and which rendering intent you chose.

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