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Soft proofing cold paper

2008-11-17 by pr_roark

Is there a way to have Photoshop show the actual tones that are 
recorded in the ICC? In this case the ICC is one made with Create ICC 
RGB. 

That is, when I use "convert to profile" and that profile is of, for 
example, a cold paper the tones that seem to be previewed on the 
monitor always set the white point to R,G,B = 255, 255, 255 (Lab 100, 
0,0) even though the ICC clearly contains the paper cold paper tone.  
Likewise, where the range of, for example, Lab B is -2 to +2, it 
appears what shows up in the PS Information palette is a range from 0 
to 4.

It looks like the system always adjusts the white point to neutral and 
then shows the relative tones.  Is there a way to avoid this?

Thanks,

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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