Markus said " Softproof shows you how the print result (most likely) will look like. If you do not like the result of the automagic gamut mapping, you can/should develop your RAW to fit into the printer gamut -> until all areas which are important to you do not show gamut warnings any more.
> Or would I be better off exporting the images with the printer profile > selected and with the intent set to perceptual? No. Thats plainly wrong. You export to some standard color space like sRGB, AdobeRGB or ProPhotoRGB. If the image is processed for printing, the colors are converted from this color space to the printer color space." I think all of the above is good advice and sending your printers an sRGB image is going to be the safest option but it does depend on what your printer will accept. For example the printers I use will accept either an image in sRGB or one explicitly exported to their printers colourspace but not AdobeRGB or anything else. So I would say always use SRGB, unless there are areas out of gamut in SRGB *and* in gamut for your final print device *and* you are really interested in those out of gamut areas and not prepared to tweak them to be suitable for SRGB. If you really,really,really want to do this you then need to send the image to your printer in some wider gamut colourspace and that choice of colourspace to use is going to be determined by what your printer is prepared to accept. Even then I would assume that, until proved otherwise, the printers are highly likely to cock up non-routine colourspaces and so make life easier for them (and you) by just sending SRGB :-) This email is confidential and is intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, please delete the email and do not use it in any way. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this email are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company. NHBC reserves the right to monitor all email communications. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email. NHBC, the National House-Building Council, is limited by guarantee in England, No 320784. Registered address: NHBC House, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes MK5 8FP. NHBC is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority. NHBC Building Control Services Ltd, registered by guarantee in England with Company No. 01952969. Registered address: NHBC House, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes MK5 8FP. NHBC Services Ltd registered by guarantee in England, No 03067703. Registered address: NHBC House, Davy Avenue, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes MK5 8FP. If you make a claim under a Buildmark policy your personal details will be stored and processed in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Your personal details may be passed to others involved with your claim such as the original builder, or a consultant or remedial works contractor that we may employ in connection with your claim(s) and matter ancillary to your claim(s). Other than disclosure provided for in this statement, we will not pass any data about you to any other party without your permission unless we are required to do so by law. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
