Csacwp Posted December 18, 2017 Share #1 Posted December 18, 2017 Advertisement (gone after registration) I'm looking to start printing my photographs. I currently shoot raw and edit the raw files in Capture One on an NEC PA272W. I save them in the sRGB color space for web viewing. I read that many printers are now using Adobe RGB. To use this color space, do I simply proceed as I have been, editing my raw files the exact same way, and then export the jpeg as Adobe RGB? Could I export it twice, once with Adobe RGB and once with sRGB, so I have a JPEG for printing and a JPEG for internet sharing? Or do I need to edit my raw files specifically for each color profile? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Exodies Posted December 18, 2017 Share #2 Posted December 18, 2017 If you edited the picture in Adobe RGB and exported it in Adobe RGB, printed it, and were satisfied with the result, and you then exported the same version in sRGB and viewed it in a web browser and were dissatisfied with the result, then I would say you were being a bit too pernickety. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Csacwp Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share #3 Posted December 18, 2017 How do you edit in Adobe RGB? I thought Raw files didn't exist in a color space until you choose one when they are to be exported as JPEGS or similar? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exodies Posted December 18, 2017 Share #4 Posted December 18, 2017 They have to use a colour space to be displayed in the edit window. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitz Posted December 19, 2017 Share #5 Posted December 19, 2017 You actually don't edit the raw file's information from the sensor and the metadata that goes with it that is in the file, such as .dng. You either embed editing changes into the file or associate a sidecar file (.xmp) with the raw file. This allows the changes to be reversible. With a Leica, Adobe .dng format has a standard as to where the edits get put inside the .dng file, leaving all the original data unchanged. In Lightroom you can select embedding with a .dng or you can select the use of a sidecar for .dng. I don't see any reason to prefer one over the other. Whatever photo processing program you use to edit has to have a color space to work in. Your camera should be set to Adobe RGB. You should then edit in the Adobe RGB profile. Some use the Photo Pro color space. I have had trouble when an image edited in Photo Pro space is used outside the photo editor. Most printers also require a tagged color space. If the printer and file color spaces don't match, you will have trouble. I don't see any reason to use sRGB because web browsers usually just do their own thing. Stated another way, in general there is no way to get color-managed images on the web. So just use Adobe RGB and don't worry about how the web treats them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeitz Posted December 19, 2017 Share #6 Posted December 19, 2017 I should have explained why browsers ignore profiles. 99.9% of all the monitors in the world aren't color managed. So nearly all monitors distort the colors anyway. As a result there is no impetus to have the browser display accurate colors. With your NEC monitor you are in the 00.1% of color managed web users. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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