I'm no expert on this stuff, but it seems to me that Adobe RGB is specifically for printing and THEN only if the printer can handle it and is ALSO calibrated to match your calibrated monitor.
In research I found this post, which seemed to make a lot of sense to me: <begin quote> Flat out - if you're mostly displaying your work on the web, use sRGB. Read this article: https://fstoppers.com/pictures/adobergb-vs-srgb-3167 Your goal should be to work in the same color space that your target audience will be seeing. For 99% of computer monitors, that means SRGB. Doesn't matter if you personally have a wide-gamut monitor, most people don't. If you work in anything else, you are just creating extra hassle for yourself because you won't know how the image will look to the rest of the world. You'll have to just edit it again for the people stuck in the sRGB color space. You can create the photo with a non-sRGB color space and let the web automatically convert/interpret the colors to sRGB. But if you let the web do that conversion, it will not do a great job, some colors will look off or desaturated... whereas your own conversion will be exactly what you want. If you shoot raw, there is no color space assigned (yet). If you then import the raw into lightroom, lightroom is actually temporarily working in their version of the ProPhoto RGB color space, (http://digital-photography-school.com/everything-need-know-lightroom-colour-space/) which has the biggest gamut of color. Then when you're done playing with the various sliders and you like how it looks on the screen, you can export to sRGB, AdobeRGB, or ProPhoto. Lightroom will convert the colors to the chosen profile, not just assign the profile blindly, and it will do a good job of it. AdobeRGB is specifically for printing (since most devices with screens cannot display it) and even then, many printers can't handle it either and are working in sRGB. So unless you want to risk paying money for a nice print and then it comes out with wacky colors, stick to sRGB. You can of course work in AdobeRGB for your own personal wallpaper, or make specialized versions of some images for other people with wide-gamut monitors. <end quote> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
