Digital BW, The Print

I recently discovered (stumbled across) a way to create standard icc 
profiles that can be used for soft-proofing QTR prints in Photoshop.  
I've put a sample soft-proof profile that was created from an icc 
profile for a QTR sepia curve that I use quite often in an archive on 
my filesharing site.  Just drop the proof profile (sepia1.psf) in the 
folder Library>Application Support>Adobe>Color>Proofing and follow the 
illustrated instructions for using the soft-proof in the read-me file 
that is also in the archive.  You don't need to be using or have QTR 
installed to just see how any RGB or grayscale image you have will 
actually look if it were printed with QTR and the sepia curve I'm 
using. The read-me also has instructions for creating the icc profiles 
if you want to make your own.  This can be applied to any inkset/paper 
and probably with quad workflows other than QTR as well.  One of the 
nice things about using standard icc soft-proof profiles is that you 
can work up your image for printing in any mode (full RGB color or 
grayscale) and get a preview of the printed results as you do RGB to 
grayscale conversions, curve adjustments, etc. with the soft-proof 
turned on.

The softproof archive with the profile and tutorial is in the QTR 
Soft-proof folder at:

http://homepage.mac.com/scho/FileSharing2.html


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