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LR colorspace help?

mrfizzedmrfizzed Registered Users Posts: 622 Major grins
edited May 5, 2008 in Finishing School
i am confused. which colorspace setting do i want to be using in lightroom when exporting. there is sRGB, prophoto RGB, or Adobe RGB (1998). does it really matter? whinh is the best?

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    TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2008
    for the web?
    sRGB
    Aaron Nelson
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    TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2008
    for your own printing i would use pro (the gurus spoke to me)
    Aaron Nelson
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    arodneyarodney Registered Users Posts: 2,005 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2008
    mrfizzed wrote:
    i am confused. which colorspace setting do i want to be using in lightroom when exporting. there is sRGB, prophoto RGB, or Adobe RGB (1998). does it really matter? whinh is the best?

    It matters:
    http://www.ppmag.com/reviews/200701_rodneycm.pdf
    http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/phscs2ip_colspace.pdf
    Andrew Rodney
    Author "Color Management for Photographers"
    http://www.digitaldog.net/
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    colourboxcolourbox Registered Users Posts: 2,095 Major grins
    edited May 5, 2008
    mrfizzed wrote:
    i am confused. which colorspace setting do i want to be using in lightroom when exporting. there is sRGB, prophoto RGB, or Adobe RGB (1998). does it really matter? whinh is the best?

    Rough guideline, not a rule: sRGB for Web, Adobe RGB for press, ProPhoto for archives and editing.

    If you don't know how to handle profiles and conversions, use sRGB, otherwise you might send wrong color spaces to devices that can't handle them. For example if you use ProPhoto RGB then make a web photo with no further conversion it will look completely wrong.
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