How many people actually shoot in Adobe RGB mode

Ian Joseph L Abasolo · Mar 28, 2005

I shoot RAW+JPG all the time and my camera is set to sRGB. This way the JPG is already in sRGB for quick use or preview. But when I process the raw file, I always use Adobe RGB. It is my understanding that the colorspace setting only affects the JPG colorspace. Please correct me if I am wrong.

unbound · Mar 28, 2005

You should be asking "How many shoot in AdobeRGB and actually know how to process the file correctly later?"

My guess is that out of the "I shoot AdobeRGB" answers that you get, 75% are actually ending up worse than if they shot just plain sRGB, because they don't understand how to process the file later, and end up with worse output.

Alfonso Bresciani · Mar 28, 2005

...to get the wider gamut, then when I convert from raw
I either use sRGB for web or adobeRGB for print work...it's
quite simple.

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Juli Valley · Mar 28, 2005

unless you are posting photos to magazine publishers.

Alfonso Bresciani · Mar 28, 2005

if you shoot sRGB you clip the color space to a narrower one.
Then if later on you decide to use the images for offset printing
how r ya gonna go back to a wider space? (aRGB)
What's lost is lost forever!

My advice would be ONLY shoot in aRGB to get the widest space possible!

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ira_e · Mar 28, 2005

I do slide shows for the local Cable TV station. SRGB is a perfect match for the broadcast color space or the web but for prints...Adobe RGB every time.

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bullet1 · Mar 28, 2005

I shoot in RAW and process the output to sRGB. I have not tried with aRGB in the conversion and print. I would like to switch my workflow to aRGB if I can see big difference.

For those of you who do aRGB all the time out of camera or from RAW, can you tell the color difference when printed on a consumer inkjet such as Canon S820 or i9900?

If you do, what types of photos show the most differences, landscape or portrait? Were those photos shot in RAW or JPEG?
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peterm1 · Mar 28, 2005

I have been shooting RAW and converting to srgb, since it's an easy workflow to email and post images on the web and print.

However, for more "fine art" shots, especially landscapes, I am going to try converting to Argb, working with that mode in PSCS, and printing in Argb (my HP7960 has an Argb driver setting). My understanding (I read this somewhere), is that Argb will include more of the color gamut in the green area particularly, so many landscapes or nature shots can benefit from this.

Peter

Thomas Niemann · Mar 28, 2005

Hehehehehe...

glasswave · Mar 28, 2005

than sRGB. Just take an underexposed portrait and apply levels & curves. Much better fleshtones. Even in RAW, I still convert to aRGB until I need to prep an image for the web.

Rancher5 · Mar 28, 2005

Great responses and I'm glad I shoot raw as of 6 months ago as I can go either way srgb or argb inwhich I did not know, I'm grateful for the knowlegde learned today. I'll keep thay dial on ARGB sense I see no pitfalls for not doing so, The question was loaded as anytime you start with does anybody blank your going to get way more responses from that group, I sure learned more in the last week about color than I thought possible as most of you were following the color gamut forums on the technical side of srgb or Adobe rgb, it seems there is allot more to gain using Adobe rgb than srgb so here we go
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RichO · Mar 29, 2005

You can convert sRGB to CMYK. It is not always a matter of wide vs narrow, but whether the gamut covers the colors used. CMYK is a narrow color space and uses subtractive color rather than additive color. The real problem is coverting from RGB to CMYK and not sRGB or aRGB to CMYK.

This becomes an issue of the target output profiling. Then you have to decide on the intent of the conversion (perceptual, relative colorimetric etc) for the colors out-of-gamut.

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Bri Mac · Mar 29, 2005

I do - it's a bigger gamut than sRGB.

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Robert Keith · Mar 29, 2005

Remember this thread....?

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1019&message=4778608

nitro115 · Mar 29, 2005

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centralcoastmagazine · Mar 29, 2005

They take my files in .psd too. So, why use any other?

mooseknuckle · Mar 29, 2005

you should do your editing in ProPhoto RGB. then convert to whatever you want (sRGB) as a last step if it is for the web. ProPhoto RGB is an option in the PS CS Raw converter.

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