Newbie to color management

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Ok guys, I'm relatively new to getting my monitor calibrated and correct application set up (lightroom/PS etc).

With my new monitor I've bought a calibration tool and run through the calibration to create a new profile which is what Vista is now set too.

My working space profile in Lightroom is srgb i.e. thats what my camera is set too and for CS its the monitor profile. Now the monitor profile in CS shows the same picture in much warmer colours, or looks the same if I keep with the sRGB profile embedded.

I'm confused as to which is the accurate one - should I go with the sRGB out of the camera or set Lightroom working profile to the monitor profile (not sure how)?

Also in Adobe RGB profile in PS the colors become warmer but not as much as when I set to the monitor profile. This is racking my brains a bit I'm sure its a simple answer as to what Lightroom and PS should be set with.

I opted to stick with sRGB as I do most of my work for online web stuff but for prints (like blurb i think they take sRGB and convert to CMYK). :suspect:
 
Ok had more play around. I've set Lightroom so when I edit in PS it exports in Adobe RGB space. This then looks virtually the same as my monitor profile so I guess I should stick to Adobe RGB in camera and in lightroom and in PS? :suspect:
 
This is quite interesting because I've been looking at this.

I edited an image last week (one of my first attempts) and later printed it at Jessops. Whilst the colours are close they are not an exact match. Does this mean I have to calibrate my monitor or is there a way around purchasing one of those calibration devices?
 
JasonRS said:
Set your camera and all your apps to the same colour profile.

sRGB is probably the most appropriate.

Or is there some other reason you want to work in Adobe RGB in one app, and sRGB in another?
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Makes sense but this means I don't use the monitor profile in PS
 
The monitor profile isn't a profile for working in, it is a profile for displaying with...

I didn't realise you could change the profile in Lightroom, I'm pretty sure it is set to its own profile, called Melissa, which is similar to ProFotoRGB.
 
Craikeybaby said:
The monitor profile isn't a profile for working in, it is a profile for displaying with...

I didn't realise you could change the profile in Lightroom, I'm pretty sure it is set to its own profile, called Melissa, which is similar to ProFotoRGB.
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think i understand now. after doing a vista restart, setting lightroom ps editing to srgb i think the profile has made things more uniform.

thanks!
 
I love it, my i-mac is the exact same as my macbook and colours look identical on my i-phone, guess what, my lab produces images that look identical to the images I see on my machines !

I love it, non of my machines have been callibrated.
 
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