On 8 Nov 2004, at 15:31, Paul Ellis wrote:
if it's best to keep an image in the colour space of its capture device until final (CMYK?) output, what's Adobe RGB for, then?
Don't know.
I understand Adobe RGB is an RGB colour space that is approximately the same shape and size as the theoretical max CMYK gamut. When you superimpose the ARGB and say Euroscale maps of the spaces they reasonably closely match.
This means if you are in Adobe RGB you will not get a huge colour shift nor loose large amounts of CMYK gamut by going from Adobe RGB to CMYK.
If your image is going to CMYK it makes sense to work on it in an RGB colour space that is 'like' the CMYK. But you will loose gamut by converting many camera profiles to ARGB, gamut that doesn't exist in CMYK anyway.
Matthew Ward
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