Preparing Photos For A Lab Print With Saal Digital
Curious about preparing a print for a lab? Each lab has its own unique needs, so doing a bit of research before printing is a good idea.
I look for two things in a print lab: a solid reputation and professional grade support for print preparation. Saal Digital has both. They have an excellent Professional Zone resource, including ICC profiles for all of their print products. In this video, I show you where to get their ICC profiles and how I use them in Lightroom to soft proof my images in preparation for printing a photobook.
Saal Digital Professional Zone: https://www.saal-digital.com/en-us/service/professional-zone/
This video is one in a series on Printing Your Work.
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Soft proofing helps you get your prints to look like your on-screen photos. Let me show you how it all works.
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Scott Davenport is a landscape photographer and photo educator and based in San Diego, California. He leads photo workshops, writes photo books, hosts podcasts, makes tutorial videos, and feels weird referring to himself in the 3rd person.
He also can't help getting his feet wet photographing at the beach.
There are two Red River papers I am turning to again and again for my prints.