These are the main instructions for Device Preview Plus - previously known as SoftProofing, but is much more now.

The SpyderPro Device Preview Plus is the tool to simulate how your photos will look in print or on a device – including home printers, online or retail printers, and other display/mobile/tablet devices.

The Device Preview Plus offers a lot of functions that are common in the ICC based Color Management.
To provide additional information you have also the information icon . Click on this icon to find additional information.
 

The Device Preview Plus interface:

1. Add images into the Device Preview Plus

Click the Browser button or just drag images files into the drop here section.
You can add .jpeg, .png, .tiff, .bmp, .heic, .dng, and most raw image format files to the Images list.

If already images in the image section you can use the Add button - see below.

2. Add / Clear the image list

Click Add to add additional images, the red "X" to remove a single image or the "Clear all" button to empty the entire image list in one step.

3. The original image

Click the image you want to preview.

Here you will see your selected image. The color profile of the image will be shown above.

4. The preview image

Here you will see your selected image in preview mode. The color profile for the preview is shown above of the image.
Use the Zoom slider to enlarge or shrink the images. Use the Fit to window button to quickly reset to 100% zoom.

5. Here you can select the color profile that is used for the simulation

Here you can select the color profile that is used for the simulation of the selected image in the preview.
The color profiles are categorized by:

Display - a list of display ICC profiles, default profiles and profiles from monitor calibrations
Mobile - a list of ICC profiles from selected mobile tablets and mobile phones
Printer Profiles - the printer profiles that are stored on your computer

6. Color space drawing and color deviation between original and previewed color

You will see the color space from your original image (as solid line) the color space from the previewed image (as dotted line).
Click and drag the solid or dotted circle on the images to select a specific area to compare the x and y values on the color space graph in the top right.

7. Color gamut warning

The Color gamut warning shows what parts of your image are out of gamut for the paper or device you are simulating. This means that such indicated colors im the previewed image are "out of gamut" (cannot be printed or displayed without being altered to a greater or lesser degree), based on the profile and rendering intent that you've chosen to simulate the mage with.

Click on the colored square to change the gamut warning color.

8. The Rendering Intent selection

The Rendering Intent defines the method how colors from the original image that are outside of the simulated color space are handled to be inside of the simulated color space.

According to the ICC Standard there are 4 methods defined:

Perceptual and Relative Colorimetric are most used in photography.

Tip: If you use a printer profile you have created using Spyder Print you can also use the Saturation setting, as for these profiles Datacolor has created a spacial algorithm for photography use and integrated this under Saturation in theses profiles. By this you have a 3rd option for your images when printing.

9. Embed your Content Credentials 

The Content Credentials function will allow you to embed your Content Credentials into your image supporting transparency and trust in digital imaging.

If you want to use this, enter your Content Credentials

and when you use the export function from Device Preview Plus these information will be integrated into the exported images.

You can check these information and much more on the Verify page of the Content Credentials Verify page. 

More information can be found under the Info button in Device Preview Plus.

Content Credentials specification is a project by the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity​ (​C2PA​)​.

10. Export your images

Use the Export function to export your images with or without your added Content Credentials in the color space you want to use for the exported images. E.g. for social media etc.

You can leave the images for export in the original color space or you can select from all profiles you can use for simulation and the rendering intents.

Close Device Preview Plus

You can close the Device Preview Plus like a normal application.

Tip: You can start the Device Preview Plus like a normal application without having the main SpyderPro program running.
You can also resize the Device Preview Plus window as you wish.

Do you need additional help?

Please submit a support request (ticket) here.