RGB98 or sRGB for web galleries

[Tim Clifton]

I will usually use RGB98 when printing from Photoshop CS2, with calibrated monitor and printer profiles.

I have heard numerous places, to use sRGB to post photos on a web gallery. I have a question regarding this. I have changed my photos from RGB98 to sRGB in the mode menu prior to saving as a jpeg to post to a web gallery. When I click ok to make the mode change my screen shot loses some color saturation or visual pop. If the sRGB is better for web and monitors I don't understand the reason for losing some of the contrast or saturation.

If anyone has some advise, or info on this I would appreciate it. I know monitors differ, but I see this difference on my monitor in Photoshop when I make the change.

Thanks in advance for any feedback
Tim
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[staereo]

Ok, this is the blind leading the blind, as I am speaking from only recent experience from researching this very topic.

The way it works is, the color range is wider with adobeRGB, but adobergb only works in programs that knowhow to show those pictures. If you use adobergb and open that picture in a web browser or other viewer that didnt read adobeRGB, then it just clips the colors at a range it knows. Whereas converting to sRGB, a color range that is a standard on picture viewers, you convert the whole spectrum for more fluidity throughout the spectrum within the smaller spectrum of colors.

Soooo, yes, adobeRGB does look nicer in adobe photoshop, but sRGB looks nicer in a standard viewer, because adobe converts it smoothly instead of the viewer clipping the colors that arent in the sRGB spectrum. Soooo, if you KNOW your viewer will be viewing it in adobe ONLY, then adobeRGB is fine. If its gonna be in a web gallery or some such, where browsers are you viewer, convert using photoshop to sRGB.



oofta. I hope I helped