Trying to find an effective print workflow
I have some photos that I've processed for screen and I want to create prints from them on both gloss and matte paper.
I thought I could use soft proofing to help me with this, and I've set up soft proofing profiles so that I can preview the print results on screen, but it doesn't seem to really do anything other than act as a print preview.
When I switch soft proofing on, I can see that my print versions need more contrast for them to match the screen version, but I can't find a way to add the right amount of contrast just to the print versions. Applying it applies it to everything, and then toggling soft proofing leaves it applied to the original pipeline, so there's no way to check my print adjustments to the original render, and snapshots don't help because they don't remember if soft proofing was enabled or not.
In short, I can't find a way to adjust my prints until they match the original.
The only thing I can think to do so far is to render a tiff from the original image, open it in a separate image viewer, try to put it next to the DarkTable window, and then adjust the soft proof until it matches the tiff.
I can't believe that's the intended workflow, but I can't find anything in the manual or in the app itself that indicates what I'm supposed to do. Is soft proofing just not finished, does it have a feature I'm missing, or is it used for something I'm not aware of? How do people deal with this?