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Adobe Lightroom - Selecting your Color Space
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There
is currently a lot of debate on what color space to use when
working between Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop. Or I
should say between the camera, the image editing software
and the final output software and/or device.
The
Adobe Lightroom application works exclusively with the color
space ProPhoto RGB but it exports to either ProPhoto RGB,
Adobe RGB (1998), or sRGB.
ProPhoto
RGB is a much larger color space than either Adobe RGB (made
popular for use in Adobe Photoshop) or sRGB (which is reccomended
for low end ink-jet printers and website images).
-
Adobe Lightroom Beta 3
- Export Dialog
The
official line from Adobe (or I should say those people most
closely associated with Adobe) seems to be that it is best
to stay in ProPhotoRGB as long as possible (even in Photoshop
CS) and to only convert to Adobe RGB or sRGB in the final
stage just before saving a file that is destined for a printer,
commercial client, or a website. Many photographers who have
been using an Adobe RGB or sRGB workflow are of course reluctant
to accept this advice and wish to continue using their tried
and true color space during the full cycle of their workflow.
To
make things even more complicated, when editing in Photoshop
or any other application directly from Adobe Lightroom, the
Edit images have no Color Space or File Format options (when
they are being exported to the external editIng application))
and are only available as 16-bit TIFF images, in the ProPhoto
RGB Color Space.
I
don't have any specific advice regarding this situation at
the moment, except to remind everyone that Adobe LIghtroom
is still in Beta and things will change.
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in these articles ...... George
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