Peter Figen Offline Upload & Sell: On
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Imagemaster wrote:
Whoa. I rarely do prints anymore, so since different people are viewing my images on different monitors of size, colour rendition, and quality, I see no point in doing anymore than just shooting in RAW with Adobe RGB. Apply a few basic post-processing adjustments in ACR and Photoshop, and post or email. I have neither the time nor inclination to spend excess and unnecessary time on a computer when I can be out taking photos.
Unless one can see the EXIF, most people do not have a clue what format I used, whether I shot in RAW or jpeg, what camera or lens I used, what colour space I used, etc., etc.
Go ahead and tell me what I used and/or what I should have used, and why:...Show more →
Well, you used Adobe RGB as your embedded color space here although all the other metadata was deleted. Here's where it makes a difference. When you post an Adobe RGB image to a website or attach it to an email, most of the people who are goin to view it are still going to be on sRGB gamut monitors and likely a large group of them are going to be using non color managed browsers or email applications. Hell, even Apple Mail isn't properly color managed. So, when you send or post this, anyone viewing in a color managed app on a wide gamut screen will see it more or less correctly, and I say more or less, because we have no idea what the state of your monitor is, which is what you based your color edit on, but anyone who falls into the group I mentioned above, those viewing on non color managed apps with older sRGB screens, well, they're going to see a substantially less saturated version than the one you intended, and maybe that doesn't matter, but maybe it does. And, on this particular image, there is no hit whatsoever from converting it to sRGB because the gamut of this image is fully contained within sRGB, or so close that you can't see it. You can check this for yourself by first, using the Assign Profile command to assign sRGB to the image. The preview there will show you how much of a saturation hit it takes doing that, then back out of that and do a Convert to Profile command and convert to sRGB. In that preview there is no change to the appearance of the image.
So, this particular image is a good one to demonstrate why it's still better to send and post sRGB images, as the greatest number of viewers or recipients will see that correctly as compared to the Adobe RGB version, which, in this case, only has wasted and unused color gamut.
Now if you had posted an image with lots of deep saturated blues like I posted recently in other sections here, converting to sRGB was problematic as those deep blues tend to become less saturated and more magenta in the conversion. My choice was to live with it but do a Selective Color move to remove yellow and magenta and boost cyan in the sRGB jpegs I posted. Seemed like the best compromise.
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