Digital BW, The Print

Geoff, Have you tried printing the same image from within LR and after
processing in PS? Making sure to have all the setting the same? Perceptual,
or Relative, Black point, etc? I have had mixed results and I put it on me
for missing a check box or something. I used the layout tool add a graphic
with my business logo on a print and they came out looking fine. I also
tried a contact sheet and it came out looking like sh%^&^.   I did go back
in and see that I had missed a check box and the next batch looked much
closer. I use Qimage for much of my output and many images get lots of
layers and adjustments so the printing out of LR is not a deal breaker to
me. If I was doing more table top work that was all done in front of the
camera maybe, but so much work is done behind the camera that going back to
LR seems somewhat pointless. 

 

QTR and LR both give you split tinting, so I would spend some time and see
how they can work together. Perhaps with ICC profiles from PFP and there
again another split tone option. 

 

Eric  

 

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From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of gofmead
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 12:57 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Lightroom and QTR Review

 

--- In DigitalBlackandWhit
<mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com>
eThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Walker
Blackwell" <walker@...> wrote:
>
> I noticed that too. Lightroom doesn't have soft-proofing yet either.
> The color-engine in Lightroom (although solid) isn't totally fleshed
> out. I'm assuming (I hope rightfully) that Adobe will fully develop it
> in the next updates. It could be an issue with the ProPhoto
> source-space. I noticed that Lightroom out-put to older 9600 drivers
> doesn't work because those drivers can't do the conversion from source
> profile to output profile correctly. As an organization, tiling, and
> processing program it's pretty good so far. And in comparison to
> StudioPrint (that doesn't have profile support for monochrome printing
> either) it's totally there.
> 
> take care, Walker
>
I can't get a decent print out of Lightroom, so to me the print-engine
seems far from solid.
I have been printing successfully using Photoshop, a calibrated
monitor, and custom icc print profiles for several years.
Using identical settings in Lightroom produces far darker, and hence
unusable prints.
I like the Library and develop modules, but if I still have to go into
Photoshop to produce a decent print, Lightroom is a non-starter.

Geoff

 



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