Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > >> GIMP already provides that. You can ask for a Soft Proof and it will >> show you an approximation of what will be printed based on the CMYK >> printer profile you specified. It can also show you out-of-gamut colors. >> > > Last time I did a softproof in GIMP I ended up with darker and less > saturated prints. So I did a simple test --- captured screenshots of a > window holding "normal" view of a photo and a "softproof", then merged > them into a multilayer image and changed softproof shot's layer mode > to "difference". Everything except just few pixels was black. I was > probably doing something really stupid, but to me it sounded like > softproof was broken.
This doesn't say much about soft-proof being broken or not, it depends on many things such as the accuracy of the color profile, the image itself, and the rendering intent that was used. - Martin _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
