roguewave Posted February 7, 2010 Share #1 Posted February 7, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) I don't know if anyone else has had this issue but I have come to notice that images imported in to LR 2.6 appear brighter & washed out as compared to how they look in PS. Placing the apps side by side on the sam monitor, there's a considerable difference from LR 2.5. Any comments/suggestions/knowledge would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ben Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest WPalank Posted February 7, 2010 Share #2 Posted February 7, 2010 Ben, the first thing that comes to mind is that LR (at least 2.5 and previous) are set in the ProPhoto color space (like it or not). Whereas you can set the color space in PS. Maybe there is a mismatch there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted February 7, 2010 Author Share #3 Posted February 7, 2010 Ben,the first thing that comes to mind is that LR (at least 2.5 and previous) are set in the ProPhoto color space (like it or not). Whereas you can set the color space in PS. Maybe there is a mismatch there? Yes! I'm in Adobe RGB. Should I reset to Pro & then change the colorspace each time I open an image that was processed in Adobe. What about small web files saved as sRGB for the web & slide show? Thanks William Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted February 7, 2010 Share #4 Posted February 7, 2010 Ben, Here's the logic behind what I do. As you know, we'll probably get thirty opinions on the matter. (Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.) I keep PS set in ProPhoto as everything from here I can "dumb" down. I create a TIFF master file in ProPhoto. From here I can resize and then "Convert to..." any color space I want. For example, sRGB for the web. I have one of the newer Epson printers (7900) which many of the Color Management gurus like Jeff Schewe and Andrew Rodney tell me can print into the ProPhoto color space. I always soft-proof before printing anyway. Some would argue Adobe RGB is the way to go. But where will we be five or ten years from now? Much easier to dumb down the color space than dumb up in the future. I hope that makes sense. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoppyman Posted February 7, 2010 Share #5 Posted February 7, 2010 Providing you are operating with the same versions, the Raw processing engines are identical. Therefore difference must be due to a differnce in settings between the apps. Raw doesn't have a colour space, and its irrelevant for Raw capture. Once you convert the Raw file you can elect to select your output colour space of course (and every other processing option). I would say that you simply have different default settings in each app which is naturally very common. Dive into your preferences and check it out. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted February 7, 2010 Share #6 Posted February 7, 2010 Like I said: [ATTACH]187173[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]187174[/ATTACH] Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
roguewave Posted February 8, 2010 Author Share #7 Posted February 8, 2010 Advertisement (gone after registration) William, I'm, as always, indebted to you. Is there a way to remaster the important images in ProPhoto on a regular basis. The images I put in slideshows are all sRGB, so they are cool, but for printing or larger scale images I want to bring them into the new color space. Is there a best practice for that or do I have to start from scratch with the DNG? As always, all gratitude. Ben Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
thompsonkirk Posted February 8, 2010 Share #8 Posted February 8, 2010 Unfortunately we can't back up & expand from a smaller color space to a larger one. We need an 'ur' version in the larger color space. Kirk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WPalank Posted February 8, 2010 Share #9 Posted February 8, 2010 Yeah Ben, unfortunately I'm with Kirk on this one. Would be happy to be told we are wrong though. Best practice going forward IMHO is to save in the largest color space possible when creating a master file. People might argue that Adobe RGB is fine, and they are probably right for now, but who knows what technology will be bringing us in the not to distant future. On a side note, I think people might be surprised that I think the default color space for CS4 is sRGB. So if they didn't manually go into "Color Settings" themselves and change it to Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB, they may be unknowingly working in the sRGB (smaller) color space (I'm talking about working in PS and not ACR). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoppyman Posted February 8, 2010 Share #10 Posted February 8, 2010 Í'm with William of course regarding staying in the largest possible colour space and then making different versions for specific purposes while preserving your master. Expanding on that, consider that your Raw file is your true master (and develop/edit info stays with it without any change to the actual data) and you can assign any colour space you desire to exported versions in various formats for various purposes. It's a different mindset, I suppose. Now though you can accomplish a lot within your Raw processor and seldom need to actually use Photoshop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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