LR and Printer Profiles

Okay... I shoot in RAW. I make adjustments in LR before I make the move to my final edits in PS. When I assign a profile to the image such as the profiles found at www.drycreekphoto.com (in my case for Costco-CA-San Diego-Morena Blvd...) I get a serious color shift. SO every change I made in LR becomes worthless. What AM I  doing wrong?
Can anyone help me here?
THanks,
Jeff

mmltdii wrote:
Okay... I shoot in RAW. I make adjustments in LR before I make the move to my final edits in PS. When I assign a profile to the image such as the profiles found at www.drycreekphoto.com (in my case for Costco-CA-San Diego-Morena Blvd...) I get a serious color shift. SO every change I made in LR becomes worthless. What AM I  doing wrong?
Can anyone help me here?
THanks,
Jeff
You should NEVER assign the profile. You should convert to it. Costcos will get you very good prints if you convert to their profile or simply use sRGB.
Since you are doing this in PS. Your workflow should be to softproof to the drycreek profile, adjust (typically using adjustment layers) for any color shifts that you don't like. And then finally convert to the profile. Then you want to save as a jpeg, stripping out the profile, and upload the resulting jpeg to costcophotocenter.com. Make sure you set it to full resolution (very obnoxious that it defaults to scaling down your picture) and make sure you turn off their color correction.
P.S. drycreek's website explains all this in detail
Lastly, as Seán (never noticed the accent on the a before!) notes using printer profiles is useless if you do not accurately calibrate your monitor.

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