Smooth Proofing

[GWAnderson]

I am trying to calibrate my computer to my printer with a product from X-Rite,
and was told by their tech support that the photo`s in Elements needed to be smooth proofed. I can find no referance to this in Elements. Can anyone help me with this?

Glen

[TonyW]

Hi there and welcome to the forum. I think what they mean is soft proofing. You can do it in Photoshop but not as far as I know in Elements. I think there was a thread about it a while back. If I find it I'll post a link or maybe someone else knows more about it than I do (which is virtually nothing :( )

Ton6y

[Wendy]

Hi Glen ...

... and welcome to the forum :)

I've never heard of that I wonder if they mean soft proofed. That is something that Photoshop can do but that Elements can't. Basically its just a way of seeing how an image will turn out if it is printed using different inks and paper.

I would have thought that their tech support should have known that Elements doesn't have that capability :confused: :confused:

Wendy
EDIT ... Tony you beat me too it :)

[GWAnderson]

Thank you for the replies.

You both are correct, it is soft proofing.
Tech support for X-Rite thought this could be done in Elements and Elements tech support confirmed it can be done, however, Elements wanted $65.00 to tell me how.
X-rite told me that this was nessesary to calbrate the hardware, do you know if that is correct?

thanks again, Glen

[Wendy]

Hi Glen ...

Using PSE4 you can change your printer profiles and you can calibrate your monitor but I don't know of anyway that you can soft proof. Maybe someone else does ?

Here is a link to some information on soft proofing but it is written for Photoshop and uses things that Elements doesn't have ...

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/soft-proofing.shtml

Wendy

[karen donnybrook]

Glenn,

Welcome to the forum.

Karen