 Dawn M. Dorland |
Color space for Photoshop I finally bought Photoshop CS5 and have it on my laptop and home PC. I have ventured into Bridge and now am starting ACR for my RAWS. I read that it is recommended to use Adobe RGB setting in my camera (50D). However, I just took a class here at Betterphoto where the instructor said never to use Adobe RGB. Even my camera manual says to avoid it if you are posting pics on the internet. I rarely print any of my pics, and when I do it is thru a commercial lab. I may print more in the future as my photography hopefully improves. Anyone have any advice for which color space I should be using?
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Lynn R. Powers |
Being that I too am a Canon user I will be comparing apples to apples. Since CF cards are cheap I take my photos in RAW+JPEG. I usually use a smaller size, M or S, for the JPEG image. The only reason I take both is because the only place I can see the RAW image is in Canon Utilities or DPP and I do not use either one. The JPEG image is to show me what the photo contains, i.e. what the photo contains. Although I learned to adjust JPEG images here at BP with PSE4 I seem to be too clutzy to get great jpeg images. Continue to shoot in RAW, you can add jpeg if you want, I process in Adobe RGB. When I am through processing the RAW image I am given a .psd image and relabel it as the Master.psd which I use for all of my printing. Being that I too like to show my photos on line, both your book and the instructor are correct about using sRGB for the internet, I open the .psd image, insure that the color space is changed to sRGB, and the mode is 8 bit, I save that and instead of changing entire title I only change it from .psd to .jpg. Check on the right side of the space below your title and a list will come up and you select change from .psd to .jpg. After you save that the normal recipe for printing appears, check that for max quality and 5 scans and walla you have an _MGxxxx_Master.jpg. This is what you use whenever you are working on the web. I have found that by first working in RAW in Adobe RGB I can end up with better .jpg images than I would be able to get from a plain .jpg. Now the instructors are a lot better than I am and can get even better photos by only using the sRGB. I ain't that good so I use what works best for me.
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Lynn R. Powers |
There I go again. I'm stuttering: "...what the photo contains, i.e. what the photo contains." Sorry about that.
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Pamela Njemanze |
I had several photographers recommend using Adobe RGB and several reccommend using SRGB only. Here is an article on the issue that may help you understand what is best for you. This was given to me by a professional photographer who shoots only in SRGB. http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm
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Dawn M. Dorland |
Thanks for the info... I did read the article and found it very interesting. Probably will stay in sRGB for now, until I advance my skills. Then can evaluate what would be the best then, may stay in sRGB anyways.
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