No your soft proof usually will be at least a little different. That’s the point of soft proof, shows the changes due to paper and ink differences. You should adjust to your preference in soft proof then print.
Under what condition(s) is it recommended to use the "simulate paper white" check box? This makes a significant difference in the on-screen appearance of the image.
Thanks…Tim
Simulate paper white is only a tool to help compensate luminance variances between a user’s ambient viewing light/display environment and the conditions the profile was created in.
Usually since no one knows what these conditions were, it sometimes gives unexpected results due to these variances.
My display is calibrated with a luminace of around 100cd/m2. When I turn on SPW with my minilab or Epson profile loaded set to Relative Intent the image dims too much compared to the print viewed under comfortably bright light of 18inch GE Sunshine 5000K T8 flotube. If I pull the print away from this light-dimming the print, turning on SPW makes it match just as well.
This is why many usually don’t turn this feature on.
Actually, no…using the Display Options change the soft proof rendering from relative colormetric to absolute colormeteric and is very useful to show what the daynamic range of the image will look like after printing. It -IS- used by people who want to soft proof not only the color but the dynamic range of a print.
Since displays may be in the range of 1:400 to 1:500 in terms of contrast range (dynamic range) and a print may only be in a 1:150 (glossy) or 1:100 (matt), when printing, something has gotta change. That’s what the Display Options allow you to see. Yes, it makes your image look like crap because it’s displaying the image in the dynamic range of the print, not the display.
The key is to soft proof without any white showing on your display-that will through off your eye’s white adaptation. Hit the F key twice (to get to black) and then hit the tab key to hide the Photoshop UI. With an accurate display profile and printer profile, the resulting image on screen will be a -VERY- close match for both color and dynamic range.
