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USING PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM 2
Printing photos
If you choose Manage By Printer, make sure to enable ICM Method for Image Color Management (Windows) or select
ColorSync in the Color Management settings (Mac
OS) for the printer driver software so that the correct profile is
applied before printing the image. Depending on the print driver software, you can usually find the color management
settings after the Print Document dialog box opens at Setup\Properties\Advanced (Windows), or in the pop-up menu
below the Presets menu after the Print dialog box opens (Mac
OS).
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To select printer profiles to appear in the Profile pop-up menu, choose Other and then select the color profiles in
the Choose Profiles dialog box.
Note:
Generally, you’ll choose this option if no profiles are listed in the Profile pop-up menu, or if the profile you want
isn’t listed. Lightroom tries to find custom print profiles on your computer. If it’s unable to locate any profiles, choose
Manage By Printer and let the printer driver handle the print color managing.
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Choose a rendering intent to specify how colors are converted from the image’s color space to the printer’s color
space:
Note:
The printer’s color space will generally be smaller then the image’s color space, often resulting in colors that can’t
be reproduced. The rendering intent you choose attempts to compensate for these out-of-gamut colors.
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Perceptual rendering tries to preserve the visual relationship between colors. Colors that are in-gamut may change
as out-of-gamut colors are shifted to reproducible colors. Perceptual rendering is a good choice when your image
has many out-of gamut colors.
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Relative rendering preserves all in-gamut colors and shifts out-of gamut colors to the closest reproducible color.
The Relative option preserves more of the original color and is a good choice when you have few out-of-gamut
colors.
Save print settings as an output creation
Lightroom lets you create output creations, which are collections based on settings you specify in the Slideshow, Print,
and Web modules. With an output creation, it is easy to return to your output settings for a specific collection of
photos. In addition, you can add new photos to the collection, and they automatically include the output settings. An
output creation differs from a custom template in that a template includes the output options, but no photos. An
output creation, however, applies the output settings to the photos in the collection.
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In the Library module, select the photos you want to print.
2
In the Print module, select a template and specify the settings you want in the Image Settings; Layout; Rulers, Grid
& Guides; Overlays; Cells; and Print Job panels.
3
In the Filmstrip, select the photos to include them in output creation.
4
Click the Plus icon (+) in the Collections panel and choose Create Print.
5
Type a name for your output creation in the Create Print dialog box. Choose a collection set from the Set pop-up
menu to add the output creation to an existing set, or choose None.
6
Under Print Options, select Include Selected Photos. Select Make New Virtual Copies if you want the output
creation to include virtual copies instead of the original photos.
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Click Create.
Lightroom adds the output creation to the Collections panel in the specified location. The print output creation has a
page layout icon
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Updated 03 September 2009
