Hmm. I've not had the same problems you do printing from a ProPhoto
RGB image in Photoshop. In my print tests, they are very near to
identical on rendering. Lightroom will occasionally show a slight edge
on certain images. The ability to create an apply printing templates
to any number of photographs makes printing from Lightroom FAR FAR
more consistent and efficient than Photoshop for me. I've not printed
*anything* from Photoshop for most of this year.
Why do you "export" and then "reimport"? Why not just use the
Lightroom command to "Edit in Photoshop" ... It renders the PSD or
TIFF for you, automatically adds it to the catalog, and opens it in
Photoshop for whatever editing you want to do?
I haven't found a need for FocusMagic at all, personally. Tried it
once or twice and it just didn't seem to do anything I couldn't do
more sensibly by focusing correctly on the original capture and with
Lightroom or Photoshop's supplied sharpening tools.
Godfrey
On Dec 19, 2008, at 7:18 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
Short version: I tried it and I like it.
Long version: I'm accustomed to printing from Photoshop, so I don't
know why I decided to have a go from Lightroom yesterday, but I did.
What's more, I left the image in ProPhoto RGB color space and it
came out looking great. In the past I've always has problems
printing images in ProPhoto RGB color space from Photoshop and ended
up converting them to Adobe RGB or sRGB for printing. I have no idea
why this should be: I always turn off color management in the
printer driver and turn it on in Photoshop and select the proper
paper/ink profile, but I never get good looking prints that way from
Photoshop if the original image is ProPhoto RGB. Perhaps the
algorithms for re-mapping between color spaces are better in
Lightroom because I followed the same procedure and got a great
looking print on the first try.
The only down side is that I can't use Focus Magic on images in
Lightroom - I have to export a PSD or JPEG, apply Focus Magic, re-
import into Lightroom and then print. Fortunately the sharpening
capabilities of Lightroom are good enough that this will only be an
issue for large fine art prints or a few select photos.
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