Settings for camera & photoshop

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Hi all, can I pick your brains? I have a canon eos 1100d, photoshop ps5 & Lightroom 3! Can anyone advise what settings I should be using on my camera RGB or srbg? Also what settings on ps5? Ie RGB 1998 or something else, also what settings for Lightroom? Colour space, but depth and resolution?

Sorry to sound a bit stupid
 
Simple answer, start off with sRGB. It's probably very close to the colour range of your monitor.

You should also use this for Photoshop and Lightroom output.

Bit depth, opt for 8 and resolution go for the standard 300 dpi. These settings should see you compatible with most things. Once you gain more experience you can try other settings if you want, but these will be fine and not give you any real problems

Don't worry about sounding stupid, you're asking the right questions. It's the only way to learn
 
Hi there, thanks for reply! Can I put my settings on here & someone tell me if they are ok or not? X
 
Hi again! My settings before we're. Camera srgb
Photoshop north America general purpose 2
CMYK us web coated
Dot
Gray both 20%

I have now been messing and camera is on RGB
Photoshop adobe 1998
CMYK Fogra39
Dot & gray 15%

Colour space in Lightroom changed to
Adobe rgb
8 bit
350dpi

Which settings do I need really, I'm only just starting out and dont quite understand all this x
 
Just leave the photoshop settings as they were, why do you want to change them?
 
admirable said:
Just leave the photoshop settings as they were, why do you want to change them?
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good point- I use CS5 and have NEVER changed the settings, seems a pointless thing to me :shrug:

Les ;)
 
Default sRGB IEC61966-2.1 is your best bet unless you need a certain setup for profile/device/output etc.
 
Hi. I think you will find that sRGB is designed for screen/web use. If you want to send you images to an online or shop for printing, that is the usual color space.

If you use AdobeRGB or Prophoto colorspace you effectively increase the gamut of the colors (you can 'see' more, particularly greens) but this has disadvantages. If you want to project your images (screen, web) and save for web, the color will often 'drain' as monitors can't display all those extra colors. Some home printers can print from those color spaces, but are often the ones with the 'extra' print cartridges.

So its probably easiest to stick with sRGB, at least for now.
 
Hi all, I changed them because a photographer friend of mine said I should but then it all got too confusing so I'm not trying to change it back
 
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