Re: LightJet vs Frontier Gamuts
Re: LightJet vs Frontier Gamuts
- Subject: Re: LightJet vs Frontier Gamuts
- From: "Bob Frost" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 17:47:15 +0100
Neil,
Not sure why you think sRGB was developed for 'web colors on poor monitors'.
AFAIK it was developed to cover the color spaces of CRT monitors, scanners,
and printers as used with PCs, with a display gamma of 2.2, as opposed to
the 1.8 of Macs, since 2.2 is a better choice. The equivalent Mac space -
Apple RGB - was also developed to match that of the CRT monitors that Macs
used, but with a display gamma of 1.8, since the Macs lower the normal 2.2
gamma of their CRT monitors. As for size of spaces, Apple RGB is actually
smaller than sRGB!
Adobe98 is a reasonable compromise between these small color spaces and the
big ones such as Adobe Wide Gamut, ProPhotoRGB, EktaSpace, etc. But you have
to realise that some of the colors in your image in Adobe98 working space
will not be able to be displayed on your monitor, poor or good, nor printed
by your printer. So you need to use soft-proofs in PS to see what the image
will look like when reduced to the colors that your printer can print.
Bob Frost.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Speers" <email@hidden>
>
I'm not the most knowledgeable person on this list ( and that statement
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is up for "understatement of the year <grin>) but from what I do
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understand, sRGB was developed by Micro$oft and HP (if I remember
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correctly) for web colours on poor monitors. I just came back from a
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digital photography seminar where the instructor strongly suggested
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Adobe1998 colour space because it maintains the colour fidelity and
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works well with almost every printer. So, it it doesn't "hurt" the
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printer to use a larger gamut, why would you want to compress the gamut
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in your file before doing any work with it?
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