I am a newbie in color management. How to get the color match from what I see on the monitor screen to the print out. Do I need to have monitor and printer profiles ?
If I have my profile, how to have soft-proofing in photoshop ?
You absolutely need monitor and printer profile in softproofing. Having a proper viewing environment will help lots.
After open an image, you need assign your working space (Image>Mode>Assign Profile), then you need convert it to your printer profile (Image>Mode>Convert to Profile). If you have more than one profile to convert, you need to repeat above steps.
Pls make sure that you make every step correctly, otherwise, you didn’t know where is go wrong and easy get lost after several conversation.
For soft-proofing, I use Qualux SoftProofer to preview my image. It is very flexible. It allows me to convert color under a series of ICC profile. I could preview my setting immediately. After getting what I need, i will follow its steps by Photoshop to print my image.
