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WORKSHOP NOTES |
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Colour Space | |
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Adobe RGB or
sRGB | |
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First of all, if you are shooting in RAW then the colour profile that you've set on your camera will have absolutely no effect on your picture. A RAW picture has no colour profile, you assign that when you process the picture (in Photoshop, Lightroom, iPhoto etc). | |
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Now, depending on your camera, the picture that you see on the LCD
screen can be effected by the colour profile that you've set it to. Adobe
RGB is more natural, sometimes even flat looking. While sRGB may
cause odd things to happen with colours and/or brightness, it tends to
punch up the colours and contrast. The reason this happens is because
there is a small jpeg picture that is attached to the RAW file, this is
what you are seeing on the LCD screen. | |
| Which profile you convert your picture to when you process it, should depend on what you intend to do with it. For publications like books or magazines or commercial photography the industry standard is Adobe RGB. Pictures for the web, emails and printing are normally profiled in sRGB. | |
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Settings that I use are: Camera - Adobe RGB Converting RAW files - Adobe RGB, 16 bit, save as TIF Post processing (Photoshop) - Adobe RGB, 16 bit, TIF Last Step - Images for the web or printing - Convert to sRGB, 8 bit, save as jpeg
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