Color Proofing

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John McWilliams
Feb 1, 2005
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I am wondering if by setting my Proofing to the monitor’s custom calibration (Spyder2) I am not duplicating corrections to the settings, somewhat similar to color correcting in the printer driver and PS?

My monitor is calibrated ok, and when I chose Mac RGB in proof setup, I get a closer match – mostly in luminance- than I do with the above setting which I now suspect is wrong.

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John McWilliams
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nomail
Feb 1, 2005
John McWilliams wrote:

I am wondering if by setting my Proofing to the monitor’s custom calibration (Spyder2) I am not duplicating corrections to the settings, somewhat similar to color correcting in the printer driver and PS?
My monitor is calibrated ok, and when I chose Mac RGB in proof setup, I get a closer match – mostly in luminance- than I do with the above setting which I now suspect is wrong.

Proofing should not give you a ‘closer match’. It shows you how the image would look when printed (or when converted to another profile). That’s why you shouldn’t set your monitor profile as proof, but your printer profile.

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Bill Hilton
Feb 1, 2005
From: John McWilliams –

I am wondering if by setting my Proofing to the monitor’s cu
JM
John McWilliams
Feb 2, 2005
Bill Hilton wrote:
From: John McWilliams –

I am wondering if by setting my Proofing to the monitor’s cu�stom calibration (Spyder2) I am not duplicating corrections to th�e

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somewhat similar to color correcting in the printer driver a�nd PS?

If you are doing View > Proof Setup > Monitor RGB (which is what I *think* you are saying but I’m not certain) then you are bypassing your monitor’s ICC profile and looking at the file as it would appear in a non-color managed application. So you are definitely NOT double-converting.

Under the above, it is not double converting, but when I did choose to use the calibration for the monitor, I wondered if that was tantamount to double correcting. IAE, it gave me luminance that was way off.
If your monitor is in good shape and your profile is accurate you shouldn’t see much difference … all I see is a loss of saturation in reds, oranges etc in highly saturated images or test color patches.

This came to light when I was doing black and white images, which to me were way light out of the printer when it seemed I was double correcting.

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