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Hey guys,

Just a quick question...

Is it best to keep the colour profile the same from Camera - Lightroom - Photoshop - Printer.

My printer (TogsPrint) uses sRGB.

I am trying to cut down the differences between each stage.

One piece of advice I was given was to just use adobeRGB including sending to the printer because its larger in terms of editing and also that a professional printer such as TogsPrint have better conversion.

I know its a question that has been hammered lately but I jsut can't get my head round it!!!!

Thanks in advance

Phil
 
Are you shooting raw? If yes, then colour space settings for the camera are irrelevant.

Lightroom always uses its own colour space. So that's irrelevant.

If your printer uses sRGB then export the jpeg from PS as sRGB.

KISS.
 
Phil

Unless you have a high end Eizo or similar monitor you are not going to see Adobe RGB on you monitor. It's mainly in the green area that the difference occurs. Even if the printer did use the wider colour space of Adobe RGB you wouldn't be able to see it if your monitor was unable to work in that larger colour space.

Also be careful about sending large gamut files to a lab that requests sRGB as they may not check the colour space prior to printing. Printing Adobe RGB files in a system that is expecting sRGB can deliver very poor results.

As far as conversions are concerned, Photoshop and Lightroom will do as good a conversion as most, if not all, the software on the market
 
Chappers said:
Phil

Unless you have a high end Eizo or similar monitor you are not going to see Adobe RGB on you monitor. It's mainly in the green area that the difference occurs. Even if the printer did use the wider colour space of Adobe RGB you wouldn't be able to see it if your monitor was unable to work in that larger colour space.

Also be careful about sending large gamut files to a lab that requests sRGB as they may not check the colour space prior to printing. Printing Adobe RGB files in a system that is expecting sRGB can deliver very poor results.

As far as conversions are concerned, Photoshop and Lightroom will do as good a conversion as most, if not all, the software on the market
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So to save time and stop differences between programmes should I just set Lightroom's Import to sRGB and PS to sRGB???
 
Using sRGB would make life so much simpler :)
 
Lightroom uses ProPhotoRGB and you can't change this.

You can change it when you either edit in Photoshop or export for printing etc.

I just leave it as ProPhotoRGB througout until I export, and then I select the colourspace needed for that export, although 90% of the time, that's sRGB.
 
Does anyone have any good links to colour space and profiling - it's the only bit of photography I keep failing to understand! I think I have a handle on the different colour spaces and I can get my images to look the same from Lightroom, to Photoshop.

However, when I save out the jpeg / tiff etc and just double click and view in the default windows viewer, or even when I upload to Flickr, my images come out 10-15% darker.

Any ideas what I may have missed setting up?
 
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