Problem saving with Proo fSetup

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Brian Huether
Mar 5, 2005
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I am sending some photos to Ezprints and have downloaded their ICC profile (I also used their calibration images beforehand). I open an image and select the EZprints profile under Proof Setup. I then go to Save As, and the Use Proof Setup is grayed out. Any idea what is happening here? I am new to this whole color managment thing, so maybe I am not seeing the light…

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Bill Hilton
Mar 5, 2005
I am sending some photos to Ezprints and have downloaded their ICC
profile
(I also used their calibration images beforehand). I open an image and

select the EZprints profile under Proof Setup. I then go to Save As,
and the
Use Proof Setup is grayed out. Any idea what is happening here?

This is the way it’s supposed to work, the proof is "soft" and just shows you on the screen what you might expect to see in the final print (if the profile is accurate for the printer and your monitor).

Sounds like what you really want to do is send them a copy of the file converted to their profile? I put the ? because often they (on-line printer shops) want the file in sRGB working space and not in the profile space, so I advise verifying this with them ahead of time … they may be providing the space for you just for previewing.

If they really do want you to send them the file converted to their profile you should make a dupe of the file (Image > Duplicate) and convert this to their profile (Image > Mode > Convert to Profile and pick their profile as the ‘destination space’).

Bill
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Tacit
Mar 7, 2005
In Brian Huether wrote:
I open an image and
select the EZprints profile under Proof Setup. I then go to Save As, and the Use Proof Setup is grayed out.

Yes, that is correect. I bet you’re saving the image as a JPEG, right?

JPEG does not permit embedded proofing parameters. You can not use the "Use Proof Setup" option if you save a JPEG. (You should avoid JPEG for any image you care about anyway. JPEG works by deliberately degrading the quality of the image. It is intended for situations like the Web where file size is important and image quality is not important.)

You can only use the "Use Proof Setup" option when you save an image in EPS, DCS, and PDF format. It does the same basic thing as what would happen if you used the Convert to Profile command, then used Save As.

Most likely, what you mean to do is use the "Embed Color Profile" command. This places their color profile in the file, and works with Photoshop, JPEG, TIFF, and other common image formats.

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