Converting colour profiles

[The goblin]

Hi

I learnt last year about the joys of colour profiles! I now work both LR and PS in sRGB.

But if I have an image in Prophoto RGB, is there a way to convert it to sRGB without it looking rubbish?

I want to print this for my sons class,



I've tried converting it to sRGB and it loses both colour and detail and looks pants!

Any tips appreciated.

 

[Chappers]

sRGB ha a much smaller gamut than ProPhoto. In fact ProPhoto is so large I don't think there is a device than can display it. However it is useful for retaining all the colour data in an image.

Try converting to Adobe RGB first. It should show no change in the colour as most images are within that colour space. Converting to a different colour space shouldn't lose detail. Yes colour will change but not detail.

How are you converting to sRGB. Lightroom uses ProPhoto so, exporting from there and letting Lightroom do the conversion to sRGB would be the easiest way.

 

[The goblin]

I have LR set to sRGB for everything now, I think!

I have tried converting profile which is better, but it loses a lot of the mottled effect on the background.

I completely understand the whole gammut thing, but I didn't last year. My concern is how I can convert any images that are in Prophoto?

My concern now is going back and locating things in prophoto RGB and converting them all. Can I find out in LR what colour profile they are?

 

[The goblin]

Sorry if that doesn't make sense, my brain is heat fried!

 

[Chappers]

If you have imported RAW files then Lightroom uses a variant of the ProPhotoRGB colour space called MellisaRGB . For all intent it's the same. So RAW files are processed in (effectively) ProPhoto..

Try exporting as AdobeRGB and see if the background changes. In Photoshop try changing the rendering intent. By default I think it opts for Colormetric. Change this to Perceptual. In Lightroom I don't think you have the option in "Export" as it uses Colormetric