Re: Best practices for using a MacBook Pro Display for Photo Editing???
leethecam wrote: Zenon Char wrote:
leethecam wrote:
Things I'd suggest for any screen...
Profile regularly with a quality calibrator tool. The Calibrite Display Pro is excellent. I calibrate before any important job. The built in calibrator on my Eizo is very quick - but just make a cup of tea whilst you wait, (if you're a Brit - I guess coffee for everyone else - ha).
Set your brightness to match the ambient light. (And don't have daylight being a strong part of your ambient).
I work in a dimmed room, so 80cd/m2 is perfect for that.
If you're in an average "office" illumination - perhaps 100cd/m2
(Remember that ambient light / colours / changes can effect how you perceive an image - which is why I work in a dimmed (not black) environment. (A bit too dark to read a newspaper).
Let your monitor use the full range of its colour gamut - don't set any limitations - there is no point. But ensure whatever colourspace you're working with can be viewed on your screen. (Otherwise you're working blind).
If you're new to colour management, I always recommend working and processing images as sRGB so they're compatible with everything. Adobe RGB (aRGB) can be great for some things, but isn't as big an advantage as you'd think - and it can be problematic if you don't understand the implications. NEVER use ProPhoto colourspace - no matter what you read anywhere...
Why not ProPhoto? Isn’t LrC using ProPhoto?
There are a lot of misconceptions about ProPhoto.
It is a colourspace that is intended for computational purposes only. It is bigger than the average eye can see. It is waaay beyond what any monitor or printer can deliver. It is not intended for viewing or exporting. (Capture One doesn't even offer it as an option because it is so ridiculous as a viewing space.
LR does indeed use ProPhoto to make its calculations. Why they don't set the output or viewing to sRGB or aRGB by default is beyond me - it is quite daft. First thing I do with any copy of LR is to change the default viewing colourspace.
You can do this by choosing the softproof option and selecting the correct colourspace. Or bizarrely, you can also change the default viewing experience by going into the "Edit In" in preferences and changing ProPhoto to something sensible like sRGB or aRGB.
Adobe have caused so much headache with this, I can't believe it hasn't been sorted. But yes if you change nothing, LR will continue to show your images in a ProPhoto gamut - which your monitor can't see and you can't print.
One of the many many reasons I switched to Capture One many years ago. They actually care about this stuff.
From that link.
Lightroom is internally color-managed, so as long as your monitor is properly calibrated, the only times you need to worry about color spaces are when you’re outputting the photos to other programs. This may be passing the data to Photoshop for further editing, passing the data to a printer driver for printing, or exporting the photos for other purposes, such as email or web.
Many years ago when I was still using PS only Andrew Rodney (the digital dog) said to use the widest game possible because you never know what how much more a printer can actually go beyond the specs. He then said to use the convert to profile command when done editing, which I did.
Like I said I don't have expertise nor the demands pros have when it comes to this. I remember when I first got into LrC over 10 years ago a well known local photographer who built name and could make a licking of stock photos used and printed everything via Lightroom.
I believe what you are saying. Just trying to make it fit with what I've read.
May 25, 2023 at 02:41 PM
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