Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Tina. Some e-mail problems at this end and just read your reply in the archive. It's exactly your experience of what works that's most valuable. eMpirical knowledge! I have a better understanding now regarding sRGB, being the default (and monitor) standard. Was also surprised to find that AdobeRGB 1998 is in fact only marginally larger gamut than sRGB. So standardizing, if web output was my primary aim, certainly makes sense. Just checked out my own posts and found that mine were all over the place re bit depth, profile and colour space. Time to tidy up my act. I note also that my (and yours?) Nikon scanner applies its own version of Adobe RGB 1998 when I save scans as that colour space. Just what you need is another variable. And I thought I had this workflow nailed down and controlled. Still, for my primary output (inkjet prints) I've got it skun. My knowledge quest continues and I had heard that the real world color management title was an authority. Looks like I'll have to delay my purchase of the oh so tasteful Ralph Gibson signature model while I buy some more text books Cheers Hoppy. At 06:48 PM 6/2/2006, you wrote: >Hi Bradley and Tina >I have a request regarding your suggestion, Tina. > >Would you expand on the rationale of your suggestion to convert to sRGB >colour space before conversion to jpg? > >Hoppy My advice is just based on my experience, Hoppy. I was having trouble with color balance on photos I posted on pbase and someone on the this most helpful of lists suggested that maybe I was assigning the color profile instead of actually converting it. I started converting to sRGB and haven't had any problems since then. If you are into reading big, heavy books on Photoshop, Real World Color Management has a good section on assigning and embedding profiles and when to convert. And if you really want to get confused, you can also read Dan Margulis' book on Color Management for Photographers. ;-) The two books give almost opposite advice so you just have to try and see what works for you. Tina Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA http://www.tinamanley.com