This enables me to print directly from my raw files. If you are printing yourself at home, there is no need to export the image at all, unless you will print from a different application than Capture One Pro – Note that I now do all of my printing from Capture One Pro, and I used to print from Lightroom when I was a Lightroom user.If they accept TIFF, it’s always going to be better than JPEG. You use it for the Soft-Proofing, and will generally export your actual files for printing with a third party printer in either JPEG or TIFF. If you are going to outsource your printing, create a Process Recipe for the required file format, TIFF or JPEG for example, and select the ICC profile for your media – Note that this is only for reference most of the time. Install the ICC profile for your media and printer combination, or the profile that a third party lab uses if you will be sending the photos out for printing.Show the Proof Margin, and make sure it’s relatively large so that you can see your image surrounded by white.Make sure you have the Viewer Color set to White under the Preferences > Appearance tab, to simulate a white paper border.I don’t go through all of these in the video, so I thought I’d list them here for your reference. When soft-proofing in Capture One Pro, here are the things you need to check. Here’s the video, and I’ve outlined some of the key things to keep in mind below too, so I hope you find this useful. I start the video by showing you the difference between a number of key color spaces too, to hopefully make it obvious that we really don’t want to cram our beautiful images, with many more colors, into these smaller color spaces. It’s often not necessary to bring all of the colors in your photographs within gamut, to still get a very pleasing print, but I explain how we can go about that in both Capture One Pro and Adobe Photoshop. But, I find that with modern printers doing such a good job of reproducing colors that the human eye perceives to be very close to the original colors in the photograph, even without being able to actually print some of those colors, means that the gamut warning has become a little too harsh. Soft proofing in Capture One Pro isn’t as useful as it could be, due to the lack of gamut warnings. I’d been meaning to do a video on soft-proofing in Capture One Pro for a while, so thanks for the question Chris! This week I’ve created a video to explain soft-proofing for print in Capture One Pro and Photoshop, in response to a question from Chris Moore.
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