I'm gonna hafta experiment with this... http://photo.net/photos/RickW
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
