Hi Paul - I abbreviated the notes on the electric blues because the post was already way too long. Here's what I think is the cause. I could be way wrong.
As a result of some reading on Luminous-Landscape, Cambridge Color Labs and a book on color management, when I switched to Lightroom 4 I also set the default color space to ProPhoto, since it's the biggest color space generally available. I'm still not convinced this is needed, because you can't see all of the colors on your monitor or printer. The theory in the books and articles is keep everything in the largest color space possible because you can always convert down, but not back up. My personal concern with this is that it really doesn't make any difference with raw files because color space is assigned after the fact. When you store the raw file it's independent of color space. This advice might come from the time when people were mainly working with TIFFs, PSDs, or JPGs. In those formats, when you assign a color space you've baked it in. So, here's what I think is happening. I'm editing in ProPhoto and looking at it on an sRGB monitor that can't display what I'm actually doing to all of the colors. Boosting the saturation of the blue sky looks great on the screen. But, on the monitor, you can't see all of the blues that will print on the ink jet printer. Then when I print in Adobe1998, the previously invisible blues show up as a nuclear sky. And you're right - turning on the soft-proofing changes the highlight warning to out-of-gamut warning and shows you where you're going to be in trouble. I guess if you want to solve this by throwing money at it, there are a couple of wide gamut monitors out there that actually display Adobe1998. Given that the two I have seen have commas in the price tag, I'll stick with the out-of-gamut warning for now. gs George Sinos -------------------- gsi...@gmail.com www.georgesphotos.net plus.georgesinos.com On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Paul Sorenson <pentax1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Nice work. Although I've not been a regular commenter, I've been following > your project closely and read your conclusions with interest. > > I've not noticed the boosting of the blues and greens in my printing. I > wonder if the make/model of printer could also have some effect on this. > > One very useful feature of LR4, in addition to all the improvements in the > process engine, is the soft proofing. Tweaking the image in the soft > proofing mode has given me a much better match between display and output. > > Like I said, a fun project to follow...thanks for sharing. > > -p > > > On 7/3/2012 9:46 AM, George Sinos wrote: >> >> This is the wrap up of the “Print-a-Day for 30 Days” Project. >> >> >> <http://georges.posterous.com/top-5-lessons-learned-from-the-print-a-day-fo> >> >> Thanks for all of the feedback and thanks for being patient with me >> filling up the list the last few weeks. Even though the project was >> interesting and I learned a lot, I may not have had the discipline to >> keep up the daily regimen if I hadn't added the public posting >> component. >> >> I've also been working on a photo project documenting St. Bridget's >> Church. This is one of several beautiful churches in town. I suspect >> this project is going to keep me busy for the next several months. I >> started laying out the book yesterday. That helped solidify the >> remaining work so I could build a work schedule. >> >> There are a few experimental and candidate shots with descriptive text >> from an existing brochure in the link below. This gallery just >> scratches the surface. There are 14 major stained glass windows, each >> with a different liturgical symbolism. There are about 70 items on >> the shot list. Given that I can only shoot a few on each visit, this >> is going to take a while. >> >> <http://www.georgesphotos.net/Other/St-Bridget-candidates/23736841_V2KGQt> >> >> Thanks again for all of the feedback on the printing project. >> >> See you later, gs >> >> George Sinos >> -------------------- >> gsi...@gmail.com >> www.georgesphotos.net >> plus.georgesinos.com >> > > -- > Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
