What does ICC profile does and how to adjust it to have a fine photo printing at outside photo labs?? :dunno: :dunno:
waisj said:Hieee
ICC Profiles actually describe the gamut, or commonly known as the printable colour space and characteristic of the output device it is representing.
Firstly by calibrating your monitor to CIE's standard, then by using photoshop and using the view>proof setup, you will be able to "Simulate" the colours that are supposely to be printed at the labs. I.E. soft proofing on your screen.
Hope that helped.
pcwe68 said:What he is saying is that
you can buy those products (eg colorvision spyder) to help you to adjust your monitor to the CIE standard, (which ensure that all the color are correctly produce on your screen)
then using the ICC profile with photoshop, you can see how it will look like if printed out on paper.
Alternatively, if you don't want to spend money, adobe gamma may help you to adjust your monitor.
As long as your monitor profile is correct it should be ok. You are not the one doing the printing, so you don't need the printer profile. That's for the printer to worry about.marklim said:hahah.. this thread was started 2 years ago. came across it and found this "i asked my neighbourhood lab and he told me he dunno wads ICC profile. den i tell him its affect the photo colour prints. what he told me back is adjust my RGB settings. how come like this??? quite funny. althogh i dun really understand bout color management. but i think what the shop owner said is wrong right ? :dunno:
lsisaxon said:As long as your monitor profile is correct it should be ok. You are not the one doing the printing, so you don't need the printer profile. That's for the printer to worry about.
The embedded profiles in JPEGs are sRGB profiles. That is the basis which you work with. The monitor ICC profiles maps the sRGB colour space to your monitor so that it shows the correct colour. The printer ICC profile maps the sRGB profile so that the printer prints the correct colour, so they are independent of each other.shadowmoses said:You're right to say we don't need the printer profile, but it's not to say we don't have to worry. If the lab guys' equipment cannot read the embedded ICC profile in the photograph we send to print, he might still get the colours wrong when he prints them.