Lightroom colour space?

AshleyC · 13 Jul 2016

How do you find out what colour space lightroom uses?

Ive calibrated my monitor to use AdobeRGB which has been fine till now, I scanned some slide film and imported them into Lightroom and they look fine in there, however when i export them as jpegs with sRGB for the web the colours look more saturated than they do within lightroom and im not sure where its going wrong, ive never had this problem before.

AshleyC · 13 Jul 2016

Looks like it was down to the image viewer in windows 10 oversaturating things by default!

Shirley Kamaya · 14 Jul 2016

Adobe camera is use in color space light room uses. it is look fine in celebration.

boyfalldown · 14 Jul 2016

by default, lightroom uses the prophotoRGB colorspace. However if you are doing colour critical work learning about soft proofing may be useful

snap-happy · 16 Jul 2016

I don't think that's correct. Anyway to view on your monitor use sRGB also best for web and most printers.

boyfalldown · 16 Jul 2016

snap-happy said:
I don't think that's correct. Anyway to view on your monitor use sRGB also best for web and most printers.

It is

. You're right about web and some printers expecting sRGB though

swanseamale47 · 16 Jul 2016

boyfalldown said:
by default, lightroom uses the prophotoRGB colorspace. However if you are doing colour critical work learning about soft proofing may be useful

It uses Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB.

"Lightroom primarily uses the Adobe RGB color space to display colors. The Adobe RGB gamut includes most of the colors that digital cameras can capture as well as some printable colors (cyans and blues, in particular) that can’t be defined using the smaller, web-friendly sRGB color space.

Lightroom uses Adobe RGB:

for previews in the Library, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web modules
when printing in Draft mode
in exported PDF slideshows and uploaded web galleries
when you send a book to Blurb.com (If you export books as PDF or JPEG from the Book module, however, you can choose sRGB or a different color profile.)
for photos uploaded to Facebook and other photo-sharing sites using the Publish Services panel

In the Develop module, by default Lightroom displays previews using the ProPhoto RGB color space. ProPhoto RGB contains all of the colors that digital cameras can capture, making it an excellent choice for editing images. In the Develop module, you can also use the Soft Proofing panel to preview how color looks under various color-managed printing conditions.
When you export or print photos from Lightroom, you can choose a profile or a color space to determine how the colors you see in Lightroom will appear on the device you’re sending the photo to. For example, you can export using sRGB if you’re going to share photos online. If you’re printing (other than Draft mode), you can choose a custom color profile for your device."

boyfalldown · 17 Jul 2016

http://digital-photography-school.com/everything-need-know-lightroom-colour-space/

Your post is wrong about the colour space LR uses

Tony101 · 17 Jul 2016

boyfalldown said:
Your post is wrong about the colour space LR uses

Are you sure?

Your source of information is from a photographer who has written some photography ebooks.

Wayne's (swanseamale47) source of information is Adobe's 'Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Help / Color Management'.

boyfalldown · 17 Jul 2016

TonyHall said:
Are you sure?

Your source of information is from a photographer who has written some photography ebooks.

Wayne's (swanseamale47) source of information is Adobe's 'Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Help / Color Management'.

Yes. Maybe you'd explain how to change it, or even choose the colour space Lightroom uses (not to export but to edit) if I'm wrong

border_all · 17 Jul 2016

swanseamale47 said:
It uses Adobe RGB and ProPhoto RGB.

"Lightroom primarily uses the Adobe RGB color space to display colors. The Adobe RGB gamut includes most of the colors that digital cameras can capture as well as some printable colors (cyans and blues, in particular) that can’t be defined using the smaller, web-friendly sRGB color space.

Lightroom uses Adobe RGB:

for previews in the Library, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web modules

when printing in Draft mode

in exported PDF slideshows and uploaded web galleries

when you send a book to Blurb.com (If you export books as PDF or JPEG from the Book module, however, you can choose sRGB or a different color profile.)

for photos uploaded to Facebook and other photo-sharing sites using the Publish Services panel

In the Develop module, by default Lightroom displays previews using the ProPhoto RGB color space. ProPhoto RGB contains all of the colors that digital cameras can capture, making it an excellent choice for editing images. In the Develop module, you can also use the Soft Proofing panel to preview how color looks under various color-managed printing conditions.
When you export or print photos from Lightroom, you can choose a profile or a color space to determine how the colors you see in Lightroom will appear on the device you’re sending the photo to. For example, you can export using sRGB if you’re going to share photos online. If you’re printing (other than Draft mode), you can choose a custom color profile for your device."

This is essentially how I understood Lightroom worked the issue under development module or indeed Adobe rgb is most monitors don't display the full gamut. As you mention printing can be soft proofed and if your printer supports will print Adobe rgb