Re: Photography editing spaces
Re: Photography editing spaces
- Subject: Re: Photography editing spaces
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:43:05 -0700
- Thread-topic: Photography editing spaces
In a message dated 10/7/08 7:20 AM, Robert Rock wrote:
> Martin,
> I am not suggesting this as a regular practice by any means. But I have
> received images from time to time that are already in sRGB when given to us.
> On occasion a client might say that the reds or greens just aren't quite
> vibrant enough, for example. We have found that if converted first to a
> larger color space (ProPhoto for example), we can sometimes "cautiously"
> tweak the image a bit to improve the image. Of course baby steps are what is
> critical here, or as you say, you will end up with a worse result than when
> you started.
But you can't go beyond the gamut of sRGB anyway, if your end result is
still an sRGB file. So, whatever seeming saturation gain in ProPhoto RGB
will be scaled back once you convert to sRGB. That seems futile to me.
Marco Ugolini
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