06-04-2019, 03:03 AM
(06-03-2019, 04:56 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Guessing you mean the printer/paper icc profile rather than just printing on (say) pink paper
Set the paper proflle up in Preferences Colour Management for soft proofing: https://imgur.com/EyXBY2z.jpg
There is in addition a section in the view menu.: https://imgur.com/NDfX2iN.jpg
Unless your monitor is colour profiled, you might not see much difference, out-of-gamut will show which might help (as a warning)
High quality printing is tough subject. A good source of info is http://www.cambridgeincolour.com
Yes! The basic idea is that if I want to add something to an image that is white, for example text or border, I'd like the printer to choose the color of the paper rather than try to print a different tone of white.
I do realize that different kinds of photo paper have different ICC profiles but since I have those installed and use them for soft proofing it seems like I should be able to set the color, for example background color, in GIMP to match the paper.
My display is calibrated but I'm not really worried, too much, about what I see on the display it is what gets done to the paper that I'm thinking about.
Possibly by just setting the color to absolute white (i.e., FFFFFF), which should be out of gamut for whatever paper I might use, the printer will opt NOT to try and print anything. In that, the plan (NOT printed) paper is as close as it can get. I'm unsure what the printer will do but I suppose this amounts to being a question about the printer rather than the editing software.
My thought is that if I can set the color to the color of the paper then when I soft proof I should get a pretty good idea of what the printed picture will look like.
What might be different about me is that any picture worth making the effort to do custom development is something I do intend to print. I have a fairly good photo printer which includes explicit color profiles for lots of different papers. Obviously this would put me in need of choosing the target paper when the image is being created.