Hi thanks for the info , can you define full colour management ........... I would have thought that this is offered in all printing softwares , like DPP through Canon Print Pro and Photoshop.
I guess I will have to crack the egg and have a peek at this software , but have to say that I only print single images to large prints mostly , have a pretty good grasp of Photoshop and consider most forms of soft proofing I have seen thus far to be an interesting beginning to understanding , but hardly empirical evidence in a world that starts at 1 and ends at 254 .
When I setup an image I look closely at the numerical values in to info pallet of photoshop, sometimes gathering as much, if not more, evidence from these numbers as I do from gazing at the picture. When adding a layers curve and using the hand tool , I can see what part of the curve the tone applies to and see the numerical change that my pull brings. To me this is accurate, repeatable, evidential, empirical judgement of a numerical image............. soft proofing seems to lack this form of accuracy and relies on a guess and past knowledge of how a paper will perform . Considering the accuracy of the profile ( over 2000 patches) used to apply the proofing of the paper to the image , don't you think some sort of, these are the numbers you had , and this is what it will become, are sorely needed ? What about displaying two side by side numerically notated graphs , one showing the image and the other showing the paper profile applied . It strikes me that the bells and whistles makers of photo software have dozed in this area for a lot of time in favour of silly filters that last all of 48 hours before they are boring. Every soft proofing application I have seen applies a similar fog to the image hoping to encourage you to add depth to the darks and lift the mids ..possibly holding the highlights , exactly how far you do this seems far more an act of how it worked last print on that paper, rather than the first visual indication of the proofer.
