Example for newbies on importance of uploading in sRGB format

mereimage

This is recent shot of a Dahlia originally processed in prophoto RGB colorspace and uploaded without changing to sRGB(just accid. dragged it to loader)



This is what it looks like when uploaded in sRGB colorspace


These are exactly the same photos, only diff is colospace they were uploaded in.
Remember if its not in sRGB then the ICC data is dropped, hope this helps some of you//I have seen some complaints from some regarding their Smugmug galleries, I recently went thru all my galleries and found many photos without any colospace data( this is listed in exif data)...Again not for you 'old hands':): ...Mereimage

ginger_55

If it were green, it might be a great artichoke, with lemon butter it would be an even better artichoke.

I hope mine are OK, now?

ginger

DRT-Maverick

I prefer the first one.

mereimage

That may be
But the first one is not at all representative of the color intensity of the flower itself.................Mereimage

Baldy

Dunno if you saw this, but in case not, here's the reason sRGB is the only option for displaying photos on the Internet:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-1998

All the best,
Baldy

4labs

I have never downloaded in srgb mode and have ordered prints from smugug(ez prints) many times and never had a problem with teh way they came out. Are you telling me they would look even better if I converted and than downloaded or does smugmug automatically convert when they print?

Secondly will there be a noticeable difference in quality if I shoot in Adobe Rgb and than convert or should I just shoout in srgb?

USAIR

Baldy

Baldy wrote:

Dunno if you saw this, but in case not, here's the reason sRGB is the only option for displaying photos on the Internet:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-1998

All the best,
Baldy

I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too

I say I print about 50% of my photos (maybe a little less)and the other 50% is for the web.
I use Adobe 1998
I thought I had it figured out guess not
Maybe I should try sRGB out for a while and see if I can see the diff ?

The color space thing just drives me nuts...not real sure why but it does

Thanks
Fred

pathfinder

USAIR wrote:

I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too

I say I print about 50% of my photos (maybe a little less)and the other 50% is for the web.
I use Adobe 1998
I thought I had it figured out guess not
Maybe I should try sRGB out for a while and see if I can see the diff ?

The color space thing just drives me nuts...not real sure why but it does

Thanks
Fred

Fred, when I process images I save my *.psd files on my archival hard drive in Adobe or ProPhoto or whatever. But for images that I plan to upload to smugmug, I go to Image>Mode>Convert to profile > sRGB and then save the file as a jpg at 8,9, or 10 quality level and convert to an 8 bit image and upload the file to smuggy. If you upload images tagged as Adobe RGB to smuggy, they will look desaturated and flat just like mereimage said.

That said, I import my RAW files in ProPhoto as 16 bit images for editing before saving as psds or jpgs.

USAIR

Pathfinder

pathfinder wrote:

Fred, when I process images I save my *.psd files on my archival hard drive in Adobe or ProPhoto or whatever. But for images that I plan to upload to smugmug, I go to Image>Mode>Convert to profile > sRGB and then save the file as a jpg at 8,9, or 10 quality level and convert to an 8 bit image and upload the file to smuggy. If you upload images tagged as Adobe RGB to smuggy, they will look desaturated and flat just like mereimage said.

That said, I import my RAW files in ProPhoto as 16 bit images for editing before saving as psds or jpgs.

If I understand you correctly:
I can use the Adobe color space on the 20d and CS
Then save it as psd ..then I can go two different routes
For web (Smugmug) use sRGB
For printing use Adobe.

One question if I use Smugmug to print do I use sRGB ?

Looks like I have to change my workflow once again
I'm not complaining I just get set in my ways sometimes

Thanks for the help on this
Fred