Exporting Jpeg with DSCL paper profile from lightroom

[Blasted]

I'm hoping someone here could point me in the right direction.

A while back I watched a video that showed you how to set up an export profile for printing. It may have been from Scott Kelby. It started at the top of the export box and worked its way down, telling you all about setting dates, filenames, and all the other boxes.

Basically, when I have finished tweaking a picture I want to export it as a jpeg ready to send to DSCL. DSCL have the paper profiles on their site, but for the life of me I cant remember how to integrate them.

Thanks

 

[Pookeyhead]

For any software to embed a profile, it has to be installed in your system first. Download the profile, and install it at C:\windows\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color.. (assuming PC use) or right click on it and select install. Reboot. The colour profile will be available in the export dialogue by selecting "Other" in the colorspace menu.

 

[ecoleman]

Use the print module.
In there you can select the profile you want and then print to file.

That's how I do it anyway.

 

[Pookeyhead]

That would work, but he's not printing it himself, so the export feature is what he needs to generate a TIFF file that has the profile embedded, so he can send it to the printer...... besides... he still needs to install the profile before either method can actually embed the profile.

 

[ecoleman]

That's why I said print to file.
I don't print myself either, but this is how I generate the jpgs with the DSCL profile.

 

[Pookeyhead]

I know... and like I said... that will work, but the export dialogue has all the necessary options required to export files.. resize, bit depth, rename, metadata etc... so as he needed to export anyway... (shrug).

 

[Blasted]

Hi, thanks for the answers.

A bit more detail about what I'm fishing for.

So I have a batch of photographs and I process the ones i want until I'm happy with the standard of them (well, as happy as you can be if you saw some of my pictures)
From there I go to the library tab and select the images which I want to send to the printers.
I then click export at the bottom of the screen.
This presents me with the export box.

Now at this point I'm exporting a bunch of pictures to a folder that i will at some point send for printing. DSCL requires them to be JPEG's in the SRGB colour space.

However, DSCL have kindly provided on their website a bunch of ICC profiles for the paper they use.

I would like to apply the paper profile to the image as i export. I'm beginning to even question if this is possible, but why else would they provide them?

I have already installed the profiles on my computer, so no issue there.

I don't see the need for me to be touching the print module unless i was doing something creative. Resizing can be done during the develop stage by setting the right aspect ratio.

The video I saw and now cant find talked you through the export box and even showed you how to set up file renaming.

Thanks

 

[Blasted]

I have seen the print to file option but that would have to be done as one image at a time, the export box allows me to do a load in one go.

 

[dinorock]

in the export dialog box go to the file settings top says type i.e. jpeg bottom says"colour space" click the drop down and select your profie from the list hth mike

 

[dinorock]

For any software to embed a profile, it has to be installed in your system first. Download the profile, and install it at C:\windows\System32\Spool\Drivers\Color.. (assuming PC use) or right click on it and select install. Reboot. The colour profile will be available in the export dialogue by selecting "Other" in the colorspace menu.

oops thats what you said

 

[AJQS]

Once the profile is installed (IIRC you download it then open it and job done), it's easy as opening it as David said above in the lightroom export dialog. Here is one of my DSCL export presets:

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[Pookeyhead]

it's easy as opening it as David said above in the lightroom export dialog. Here is one of my DSCL export presets:

Depends what OS you're running.

 

[Blasted]

Thanks,

although looking at Alans example, i would't need to check the resize box if i have cropped to the right aspect ratio in lightroom already, would I?

 

[AJQS]

Thanks,

although looking at Alans example, i would't need to check the resize box if i have cropped to the right aspect ratio in lightroom already, would I?

Yes, the crop box only selects the shape, it doesn't define the print size, you do that in the output dialog.

 

[Blasted]

So what does resizing the image in the export box do over just cropping or not cropping?

In your example its showing 24x16 as the output size which is a multiple of 3x2 and not in need of cropping from the original, but when you export you specified the size you want it.

Just curious as its stuff I didn't do before.