Photobookshop Software Download

[Lauro Pericles]

Im using Lightroom 6 and am trying to install a printer profile that a photo book website uses. It is the profile for the Photobookshop.com.au printer. I would like to soft proof my photos against their printer profile. They have advised me their profile is GRACoL 2006 Coated 1v2 CMYK so I downloaded the icc file at GRACoL2006_Coated1v2

Thanks for the heads up. It's a little disappointing a commercial photo place uses a palate that's smaller than what you see on a stock standard computer screen, but I guess it's a cheap photo book place.

That's a basic misunderstanding of how this works. RGB computer display primaries are not the same as C, M, Y and K inks. Wikipedia is full of articles explaining this. Remember that gamut is basically a triangle with the primaries in each corner, and if you rotate one triangle 60 degrees over the other you can see what happens. They don't fit.

I'm aware that it's a limitation of the CMYK gamut. What I mean by "disappointing that the printer gamut is smaller than what you see on a standard computer screen (sRGB basically)" is that 99% of people using photobookshop to print photo books would know nothing about screen or printer limitations, so considering some printers are able to print a range bigger than or equal to sRGB, I think it'd be fair to say that you'd expect that, otherwise people without the expertise of knowledge to soft proof are going to get unexpected results - in some cases more than others depending on the individual photos.

If you say it is cheap for them to use these CMYK printers, that'd be why they are doing it, because not many people would realise their photos have printed out different to how they've viewed it on their computer screen. You get what you pay for I guess. In fact, I wasn't able to find any info. on their website either about what profiles they use or what formats they want the photos sent as.

Deep blues are the worst, BTW. This is exactly the point where the CMY primaries are nowhere in sight, and the closest you get is a muddy mix of cyan and magenta. It's just the way it is. On screen, however, you have a wonderful, radiant blue primary color right there.

Edit: I forgot to say, apparently CMYK profiles aren't able to be soft proofed in lightroom due to inconsistent results, as mentioned by someone else above. Are you able to expand on that, as Photoshop still allows it.

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