As far as I know most monitors are calibrated to sRGB. With an Adobe RGB
file you have to view under Photoshop and set to the same color profile in
order to reproduce the right color.
There is always a confusion about Adobe RGB contains more color but actully
it just shrink the color range to reduce the chance of clipping during
editing. Just like set the contrast of a DC to "low" in order to avoid
clipping of highlight and shadow details that I did in the pass when
shooting JPEG.
There is a drawback though, the narrow color range (low contrast original)
does not make use most of the bits, it results easier banding when you
adjust the color/contrast. It is not a problem for 16 bit image but for 8
bit it could be.
Actually, the best way is to shoot RAW and have all color/contrast adjusted
before doing other editing in PS. In this case sRGB is the best profile to
be used since you don't have to convert back to sRGB when sending to lab.
(normal lab like the one use Fuji Frontier only accept sRGB).
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "Winsor Crosby" <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I admit I have trouble understanding some of it, but I don't think
> what you said about the monitor being an sRGB device is accurate.
> Even in your article reference at Cambridge he says,
>
> "All of these extra colors in Adobe RGB 1998 are great to have for
> viewing on a computer monitor, but can we actually reproduce them in
> a print? It would be a shame to edit using these extra colors, only
> to later retract their intensity due to printer limitations."
>
> So it sounds as if a monitor is perfectly capable of reproducing
> Adobe RGB 1998.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> A religious argument mostly. If you send to commercial labs for
>> prints
>> then use sRGB. If you don't they'll convert it anyhow. If you
>> print at
>> home and have a really first class ink jet printer with, say, 8 ink
>> colors it might be able to show some of the additional color from
>> Adobe
>> RGB over sRGB. However, you won't likely be able to see it on your
>> monitor which is an sRGB device. Confused? Here's a reasonable
>> treatise on the subject.
>> <http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm>
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