Color setting in PS 7 with a canon G5

[Riccardo]

I'm a bit (very) confused on color setting.
I allways had my color seeting in PS 7 on Adobe RGB (1998). Now I have a G5 and the color imbedded is sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Now When I open a photo i can
a) Use the embedde profile
b) Convert document
c) Discard the embedded profile

or I can change my color setting to sRGB IEC61966-2.1

What is the best solution?

Thanks
Ciao
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[John_T]

Keep the original sRGB color space. You gain nothing by conversions and are only likely to mess things up in one way or another fiddling with them.

The Canon 10D and up offer a choice of color spaces, sRGB or Adobe RGB, in camera. The G5 only gives you sRGB which is fine.

When you open your image in PS it should open in the native sRGB color space, so it shouldn't be necessary to do anything. On the printing end you also leave it at the original sRGB, but you may use profiles there for special papers, etc.

Calibrating and profiling your monitor is the most important thing you have to do...

[maderito]

Keep the original sRGB color space. You gain nothing by conversions and are only likely to mess things up in one way or another fiddling with them.


A footnote to John_T's advice.

I once tried to process some 10D images shot by a friend in sRGB color space. Since I usually work in Adobe RGB, I converted each shot to that space upon loading into Photoshop. The shots were of people and had lots of skin tones. I wasted a lot of time trying to perform color corrections (to tweak skin tones) on the converted images. I eventually realized that I shouldn't do the conversion and instead do as John_T suggested (load the images into sRGB working color space without conversion). Once I switched the approach, the shots barely needed any siginificant adjustments. They looked just fine right "out of the camera."

Many well-learned lessons follow time-consuming mistakes!