Re: Photography editing spaces
Re: Photography editing spaces
- Subject: Re: Photography editing spaces
- From: MARK SEGAL <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:47:32 -0700 (PDT)
The generally (but not universally) accepted advice in this area is to edit your photos in a large colour space - ProPhoto and simillar - in order to maximize the full information content (viz colour saturation range) of the image, and then to create a new file of the image and for the new file reduce the colour space for those output destinations which absolutely cannot absorb such wide spaces - e.g. web and offset press. This way you preserve wide gamut images for purposing to today's generation of printers the gamuts of which can exceed ARGB(98) in some respects, while also having the image repurposed where narrower gamut is preferred. There is a very considerable literature (and losts of debate) on this matter which you will find doing a search on the internet. Beware, that when using a space as large as ProPhoto, your should also be working the image as a 16-bit file to avoid banding and posterization.
Mark
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From: Matt Beals <email@hidden>
To: ColorSync <email@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, October 2, 2008 2:36:21 PM
Subject: Photography editing spaces
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Given that many images from con/pro-sumer digital cameras use sRGB as
their native color space is there any reason for me to not make color
adjustments in sRGB? Typically for graphic arts people prefer Adobe RGB
1998. For GRACoL work I have a few friends who suggest using ECI RGB.
But if I'm working on images that are destined for a photo lab for
printing (even a Costco/CVS/Snapfish type service) is there any
advantage in converting to ProPhoto or any other color space than sRGB?
I don't see the advantage, but that doesn't mean there isn't one. I'm
open to all suggestions.
Thank you,
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