Soft proofing
ICC Profiles
ICC profiles help you with previewing your art before printing.
It is the best way to simulate the colours of your future print on your monitor.
What are
ICC Print Profiles
ICC (International Colour Consortium) profiles are files with the extension .icc that contain data of a colour space or of the input/output of a device – for example, a printer, a scanner or a monitor.
In Giclée printing, an ICC profile contains information about how the colours of a certain printer will turn out on a certain paper.
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Preview your art
Soft proofing
In order to preview your future print on your monitor you need to have our ICC profiles installed on your computer.
This way you can access them in Photoshop and see as accurately as possible how your artwork's colours will turn out printed with a specific printer on the paper of your choice.
You can read more about how to install ICC profiles and soft proof your art in our Soft Proofing section.
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