As a landscape, wedding or fine art photographer it’s likely you’re having your prints done at a color lab like Bay Photo, EZ Prints or Loxly if you print through Smugmug. But did you know you can first check your photos against their printer’s ICC profile with the Soft Proof feature in Adobe Lightroom? Here’s how you can do it. How To Set Up Lightroom To Soft Proof With ICC Printer Profiles Bay Photo and many places do have technicians that will color correct your image to work with their printer if you give them an sRGB image, and this usually is fine.

In Adobe Photoshop. Right-click a profile and select Install Profile. The following additional ICC profile types are available under Destination Space. Learn how to calibrate your monitor and install color profiles in Adobe Photoshop. Using the printer profile, the color management system. Mac OS: /Library.

But, if you want to see what colors and tones in your image are out of their printers range so you can correct them yourself, then soft proofing with their profile is what you’ll want to do. Soft Proofing is not for everyone.

Using sRGB is likely fine for most people. See more from Here’s how you can do it. Step One – Download your color labs ICC printer profiles. Here are some links to some popular color labs ICC printer profiles. Step Two – Install the color profile. In Windows it’s as easy as right clicking and selecting Install. On a Mac you need to place the profile in /Library/Printers/ColorSync/Profiles On OSX 10.12 and newer you need to put them in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles If you don’t see Library you need to turn off hidden files.

Step Three – Setting up the profiles with Lightroom. Next you need to open and set Lightroom to look at the profile. Jet Fighter 2 Download. The easiest way is to use the Soft Proof feature in the Develop Module.

Select Soft Proofing below your photo in the Develop Module. To the right find the Soft Proofing Panel. Select Profile to add a printer or profile, then choose your printer. And that’s it. To the top of your histogram you’ll see two icons, one that is a monitor and one that is a piece of paper.

Selecting the Monitor allows you to proof your image against your monitor, highlighting what’s out of range and what you may not be seeing. This is useful especially if you do not have a wide gamut monitor. Selecting the Paper shows you what’s in range against the printer, allowing you to use the HSL tool to bring your colors back into that printers range.

Download Tune Up Utility 2008 Full Version. A printer will likely do this for you, but if you want maximum control, and minimize surprises, then it won’t hurt you to do this manually. Be sure to check out video for more details and instructions on soft proofing. Lightroom 4 Soft Proof In Depth by Andrew Rodney.

• Storing profiles in /Library/ColorSync/Profiles allows all users to use them. An alternative area, for users without Admin privileges, is /Users//Library/ColorSync/Profiles. Profiles stored here are available only to the current user. The ColorSync Utility gives access to the details of individual profiles, shows gamut plots, can rename profiles, validates profile structure, among other useful tasks.

• OSX 10.7.3 (Lion) and above: The system profile folder is hidden by default. Storing profiles in this folder is possible, but requires following the steps. • OSX 10.9 (Mavericks) and above: Depending on the printer profile, individual system configuration, and perhaps the phase of the moon, Adobe products (e.g. Photoshop, Lightroom - and particularly the Creative Cloud or CS6 versions) sometimes refuse to recognize profiles installed outside an Adobe-specific location. If a printer profile installed to either the system or per-user folder does not show up from within an Adobe product, move the profile to /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Color/Profiles/Recommended. A reboot may be required for the profile to be visible from within the Adobe application. • All profiles should be stored in Windows system32 spool drivers color • The easiest way to install a profile in Windows Windows is to right click on the profile in Windows Explorer and select ' install profile'.

Windows copies the profile to the correct directory automatically. • Important note: If you are replacing a profile in Windows, the above shortcut does not work. The profiles must be manually copied to the correct directory for the original profile to be replaced. Microsoft has listed this as a since Windows 98. • Windows 7 and Vista have a Control Panel applet that allows selecting default profiles for devices and manually installing profiles that are not already in the system profile directory. The functionality is limited, and a right-click automatic install or manually copying the profile to the system profile directory is much easier.