It’s kind of like trying to choose a good barber for your haircut. With so many labs to choose from, the decision to choose one that you trust with your photos will be quite difficult. More on ICC profiles will be provided below. Quality labs will share their color profiles for you to download to make your image just right. These ICC files are available to download and, when viewed in Photoshop or Lightroom, will apply the color space of the printer on your image, allowing you to see how the image looks if it were printed.
If you’ve chosen to export your photos to a lab, each lab has its own color profile, called an ICC profile, that corresponds to their printer’s color space, which will most likely be different from the color space of your computer screen. To make sure what you send to the lab is what you get back in the mail, there is a specific workflow, called soft-proofing, that you should follow to optimize your photo for printing which will be explained in detail in this blog. You’ve worked hours try to perfect the details and colors of your shot but how do you guarantee hard work will translate properly from the screen to the paper? Wherever you’re printing from, each lab and printer has its own color profile that will translate differently on the paper used, resulting in an image with colors that will look slightly different from your screen. Congratulations! You’ve managed to create an image you believe is print worthy.
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