CS3 Colour Management

Hi,

I'm new to CS3 and have found that images converted from RAW to Jpeg look more saturated when displayed in CS3 than if one views the same image in MS Explorer or when downloaded to a website.

I work in Adobe RGB from camera to CS3 and have a calibrated Apple Cinema Display.

Please help! I now it must be software related, but I've spent the whole morning searching and experimenting without success.

Thanks,

Mybs

Found the answer in another thread. I was viewing image in CS3 Proof Setup as 'Working Black Plate'. I assume this should be 'Windows RGB'?

Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks

What is your color settings in adobe cs3? To view it go into edit.
Are you printing your pictures or is it just for web?

Mybs said:

Found the answer in another thread. I was viewing image in CS3 Proof
Setup as 'Working Black Plate'. I assume this should be 'Windows
RGB'?

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First, View Proof has nothing to do with how your Adobe RGB images will be viewed outside of Photoshop.

If you were viewing 'Working Black Plate' in CS3 Proof you would see only a rather strange black and white image. So you had to have had "View-> Proof Colors" unchecked (hit Ctrl-Y to toggle between view proof and regular).

The selected "Proof" space doesn't matter except if you are trying to see how an an image would print and for most uses this means you have to have a printer profile for the printer, ink, settings, and paper you are using. This is because each combinations has slightly different colors it can print so the "proof" menu is to be able to check against these variations.

Since your OP stated you are using Adobe RGB then you should expect your images to look desaturated in most apps outside of PS since they will interpret your image as if it was sRGB and ignore any colorspace you assigned it. This is why you will often see people say you should convert to sRGB for web (or other uncontrolled) display.
marty

Mybs said:

Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks

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Agree with Marty. The Adobe colorspace may be what is causing the desat look in other apps (most all apps will support sRGB though). Also, like Marty pointed out -- the "Proof" settings are to simulate your printer output.

G'luck
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Joe

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Thanks for the advice. I will explore a bit later.

I have the same problem.

CR2-files (Canon 20D) is more saturated in Adobe Bridge and Photoshop. But .jpg-files looks the same. CR2 is shot in AdobeRGB and the .jpg-files is shot with sRGB.

I use Breezebrowser and that supports AdobeRGB 1998?. It shows the images with sRGB?

I will do a test later today shooting RAW with sRGB too.

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• Terje

Did a test with my Canon 20D. Shot some images with RAW+JPG in AdobeRGB and in sRGB.

The colorspace does not matter, RAW-images is more saturated than JPG. I use Bridge and switch between the RAW and JPG of the same image.

Why is it like this?

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• Terje

Hi Terje -

RAW doesn't actually "have" a color space. It only has a reference (in most cases) to what the camera color space was set to. Until you export from RAW - you are reviewing in the color space defined by the app that you are looking at the image from.

Terje H. said:

Did a test with my Canon 20D. Shot some images with RAW+JPG in
AdobeRGB and in sRGB.

The colorspace does not matter, RAW-images is more saturated than
JPG. I use Bridge and switch between the RAW and JPG of the same
image.

Why is it like this?

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• Terje

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Joe

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