WHAT In The World is SOFT PROOFING In LIGHTROOM?

hi everyone anthony morganti here have you ever been editing an image in the develop module of lightroom and inadvertently hit the s key on your keyboard suddenly you have this white border around your image you have red and blue on the image and it says proof preview in the top right hand corner well you've just entered soft proofing mode and in today's video i'm going to teach you everything you need to know about soft proofing in lightroom [Music] [Music] i mentioned at the top that you can enter soft proofing mode from the develop module of lightroom by hitting the s key on your keyboard you also could enter it by going down to the toolbar and clicking on the little chuck mark next to soft proofing if you don't see the toolbar in your lightroom hit the t key on your keyboard it turns that toolbar off and on if you don't see saw proofing in the toolbar go to the far right hand side click on that little triangle and make sure that there is a check mark next to soft proofing now you're in saw proofing mode well what does this mean well saw proofing mode is a way for you to know which colors in your image won't or aren't being displayed properly on your monitor and what colors on your image won't be printed correctly on your printer have you ever edited an image and shared it online and then looked at it on your phone and the colors look different or you've printed it and the colors look different well this is where soft proofing comes in it tells you which colors aren't going to either display correctly or print correctly now if we go over on the right hand side when we're in saw proofing mode you can see where the histogram is is now a soft proofing area here and this there are like pretty much everything we need for soft proofing now specifically you have i mentioned display colors that aren't being displayed correctly in printer colors that aren't being printed correctly that's called being out of gamut so if a color isn't being displayed properly or being printed properly they're out of gamut and you see them with these red and blue on the image now you may be familiar with red and blue as clipping indicators in lightroom this has nothing to do with highlights or shadows clipping this is purely colors that are out of gamut and you could turn those off and on with these little icons that are in the corner of the histogram in the far left hand side you have this little kind of monitor icon and specifically what that monitor icon allows you to see are colors that are outside your display's color capabilities and when that is on they'll appear blue in the image area so wherever you see blue that means my monitor as it is right now cannot faithfully reproduce the color that i just adjusted this image too now over on the far right hand side we have this little icon that's supposedly a piece of paper with the corner folded over and colors that are outside your printer's rendering capabilities appear red in the image preview area now you can see on the image there's red in a large part of the image that means when i print this my printer and paper combination won't faithfully reproduce the colors that i'm seeing on my monitor now where you see here like kind of a magenta color in here that means that both my printer and my monitor cannot reproduce the colors that are right there and you could turn these off and on by just clicking on them now let's just talk about the display first of all turn that one on you can see we have blue that means my display right now isn't showing those correctly let's just say that i'm sharing this image online or i'm sharing this image to a group of people and i know for a fact that they're going to be looking at this image using an adobe rgb monitor right i could go over here and change the profile from display p3 which is my mac display to adobe rgb and now you'll see that the blue changed less of it is out of gamut now so these colors in here will not be displayed correctly on a adobe rgb monitor i also could switch it to srgb as well if i wanted to see that so that is display and to tell you the truth saw proofing isn't used as often for display capabilities maybe you want it on just to make sure you're seeing true colors but most often you're not using it for that we're using it for printing so i'm going to turn on the printer little icon over here you can see there's some red in the image there now the printer gets a little bit more involved because every printer is different and all the paper is different as well so what you need to do to faithfully reproduce color with your printer and paper combination is go to the website of the manufacturer of the paper you're using it could be red river it could be haunted meal it could be epson it could be any manufacturer because all of them have a section of their website where you could download something that's called an icc profile an icc profile is specific to the paper you're using and to the printer you're using so if you're using let's say a specific type of paper let's say hana mule photo burrito paper that's one of my favorite right so you're using that paper but you have two different printers you have an epson p800 printer and you have a canon i don't know forgot the model numbers but you have a canon printer as well well there'd be different icc profiles even though it's the same paper you'll have a different you'll have an icc profile for the canon and a different icc profile for the epson at any rate it's really easy just go to their website they'll have a section there for icc profiles find your paper find your printer download the icc profiles then you have to put that icc profiler loaded into your computer the website will have specific instructions how to do this you don't load it in through lightroom you load it on a system level basis specifically windows will have a folder where you put all your icc profiles and mac has a folder where you put ic all your icc profiles in the description below this video i have a link to hana mule's website and they just tell you exactly what folders all these icc profiles have to go in and again it doesn't matter if you're using hana mule paper red river paper or whatever it all goes in the same folder so you put the icc profile in the folder you may have to close down lightroom and reopen it and once you do you could go into soft proofing mode turn on the indicators for paper then go to the drop down now they won't show up here right away you'll have to click on other and this show up here and then just put a check mark next to them so they show up in the drop down then go to the drop down and pick your paper i mentioned i like this burrito photo burrito paper and you could see that wherever it's red it's not going to print quite right right there now what can i do all right i i want i get printed i could look at it and see oh you know i don't know you know well there's a couple things you could do first of all you could not do you could not do any readjusting here and just try to print it like this but you could then use the print module lightroom intel lightroom to control the printer and when you do that uh in the print module lightroom you'll have something called intent perceptual and relative and you can see as i do that you can see the reds changing what does perceptual and relative intent mean well let me read it right from adobe's website because i think it's it's kind of difficult to put into words but actually once you know it it's pretty much obvious all right the rendering intent determines how colors are converted from one color space to another so we're going from my display p3 color space to the hana mule photo burrito paper color space with an epson p800 printer perceptual it's this first one it aims to preserve the visual relationship between colors so they are perceived as natural to the human eye even though the color values may change perceptual perceptual is suitable for images with lots of saturated autogammic colors so perceptual from my experience will shift more of the colors so that the entire image as a whole looks harmonious to the human eye so even though imperceptible the where the red is is out of gamut it to get those in gamut it may shift everything around it so that it looks more harmonious when you're looking at it now if you use the relative intent that compares the extreme highlight of the source color space to that of the destination color space and shifts all colors accordingly out of gamut colors shift to the closest reproducible colors in the destination space relative preserves more of the original colors in an image than perceptual does so what that is saying is relative will shift less colors it's basically just shifting the auto gamut colors and not the other ones so wherever it's red now when you print with the relative intent just those colors will be shifted in the other colors not as much if i'm using the perceptual intent it will shift those colors but it may shift some of the other colors a lot as well so that the whole kind of kind of color palette looks harmonious to the human eye i hope that made sense well that's one thing you could do another thing you could do is you could just readjust the image to get rid of all the red in it or if you're adjusting it for a display to get rid of all the blue in it now what you would do then is just start adjusting typically though you'd probably go to the hsl tab right to adjust colors here and when you do that let's say we're going to go to hue as soon as i start to try to adjust anything it will come up with a warning create virtual coff virtual copy for saw proofing i would strongly recommend you do this that way you'll have a virtual copy for your print or for your display and then the original image is still adjusted the way you actually wanted it right so we're going to create a proof copy just like that and now you'll see down in the film strip we have a proof copy this is a virtual proof now we could come in and try to get rid of that red that is in there and you can just now i could be it could be folly you might not be able to do it but you could come in and just do your best to try to get rid of the red there maybe like that no that but you see what i'm talking about it could be difficult but you could come in and try to minimize it at the very least and you're doing it to the virtual copy so your original copy is untouched so that really is pretty much everything you need to know about soft proofing now again in the description below this video i have a link it's going to be hanamil's website but again it doesn't matter because you put all the icc profiles in the same folder on your computer it's a specific folder for windows specific folder for mac once they're there again what you would do is you would go to this drop down click on other and they'll show up here and then just click them and also if the display isn't showing up here let's say you are processing this for a specific display and the display isn't showing up over here what you could do is then go to other and then click include display profiles these are display profiles that are on my computer so i could choose one of these profiles as well if i wanted to and then they'll show up in the drop down and then i could use them so that is soft proofing for me this is one of the more difficult topics to explain properly hopefully i did okay and i didn't confuse the issue more for you but that is pretty much saw proofing in lightroom hopefully it helps you thank you everyone who watches my videos i really do appreciate it i'll talk to you guys soon [Music] [Music] you

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Length: 13min 50sec (830 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 24 2021