Yah, a good monitor shows a wider gamut than photo paper, especially than matte photo paper, does. The monitor also will show a much higher brightness range than a print. Most current printers if you select "let printer determine colors", will convert your files to the printers own colorspace anyway. As Bill says most commercial printing places* are setup to use sRGB.
Images properly prepared for the web however aim for the lowest common denominator. And any image without a profile is assumed to be sRGB. Most "save for web" selections convert to that automatically as well. Of course you can use "save as" to save a jpeg in whatever color space you chose but that will not strip the extraneous information from the file. *I used "commercial printing places" because I have discovered that many print shops now can print your photo bigger than the minilabs can, as most of them have the big inkjets for printing posters and such. -- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- William Robb wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cory Papenfuss" > Subject: Re: AdobeRGB vs. sRGB > > >>> Unless you calibrate your own printer, or use a lab that will give >> you a profile for their output or specifically states they use >> something >> wide (like ProRGB), chances are they use sRGB. > > Photographic paper's colour gamut falls within sRGB. If you send a wider > gamut file to a photographic printer, the paper will clip. > > William Robb > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
