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Re: Soft proofing cold paper

2008-11-17 by Tyler Boley

Paul, not in the conversion preview or normal Photoshop viewing. But
in soft proof, yes. You'll see the paper white check box there...
Tyler
http://www.custom-digital.com/

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark"
<pr_roark@...> wrote:
>
> 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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