ICC printer profiles...

Eric Hoffman

Hi,

I read about printer ICC profiles and how one should download these so you can soft proof before commiting to having a print made.

So I located Bayphoto and EZ Print's ICC profile by following Andy's response to someone else. I downloaded both of them as seperate folders to "my documents" and there they sit.

How do I use these profiles? I figure they have to get into Photoshop (I have CS2) somehow as the first move. Is this correct, and if so, how do I move them into PSCS2?

If I can get them there, then what do I do as far as soft proofing?

Thanks for any help or direction on this.

Eric

Andy

How to install: http://www.smugmug.com/help/display-color

How to soft-proo:
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/6885600_qzSwN

"soft proofing" under photo manipulation

Eric Hoffman

Halfway there...
Hi Andy,

Thanks for responding so soon.
I managed to get the EZ Print ICC into Photoshop, but the one for Bay Photo won't show up.

I went back to the ICC folders in my documents, right clicked each, and they both had UNINSTALL as an option as opposed to Install so it looks like they both installed, but as I said, the Bay Photo one is not there. So I clicked Uninstall on the Bay Photo one, a few minutes later I went back to it, right clicked, Install was there again, clicked on Install, closed down PS, restarted Photoshop and it is still not in the custom profile dropdown menu.

Any ideas?

Eric Hoffman

Any chance the Bay Photo profile shows up with a different name in Photoshop?

jfriend

Eric Hoffman wrote:

Any chance the Bay Photo profile shows up with a different name in Photoshop?

In my copy of Photoshop, it's called "3E_9-4-2007_1" which I think is the same as it's filename.

Eric Hoffman

It is...
Andy,

I do have it, I was confused because it comes up as 3E_9-4-2007_1
in the dropdown menu.

I right clicked on the BP Profile and clicked associate, and under profile information I found the above name.

So all is good, thanks again.

Eric Hoffman

Thank you John...
I discovered that as you were helping me by typing your reply, and I posted before I saw your reply. That was it.

Thanks again.

Eric