Adobe RGB or sRGB ?

What color space do you set on your camera?

I never paid attention to this until now ...

Long ago discussed to great length, the 'advantage' of aRGB JPG is the wider range of hues in the color set. But that is a potential advantage, and is not always a real advantage!

• But OTOH, are you printing images from a commercial printer who CAN print an aRGB file without first converting to sRGB?!...if not, aRGB is 'wasted'...because those printers 'convert' the aRGB file to sRGB and the wider range of hues is lost.
  
• Are you merely making images for sharing on the web?...if you are, again use of aRGB is 'wasted'...because the web only uses sRGB and the wider range of hues is lost, and the color reproduction on web will be looking different from what you see in your own monitor while postprocessing.
  

strobe monkey wrote in post #19370990
What color space do you set on your camera?

I never paid attention to this until now ...

No simple answer, it depends... I suppose. If you shoot raw, it really doesn't matter as you can work the raw image in any color space you want, even work it in one, then work it in the other. If you have SOC jpegs, then it depends on what the intended display device wants. For monitor/web/social/mos​t printers, they all handle sRGB so processing for those is best. For some print applications, especially where you really can benefit from the expanded color space, aRGB will give you a wider gamut. So, my best answer is... SHoot raw. then it doesn't matter as you can output into any color space.

I shoot RAW so the in camera colour space is irrelevant.

When shooting raw it doesn't matter
What i mostly do is setting highlights all the way down and shadow detail all the way up in the picture settings.

These settings have no impact in the raw files but it makes judging dynamic range much easier in camera. The preview is based on a jpg in most cameras and by changing those settings it comes closer to what a raw can recover.

Saves doubt when you see the "blinkies" but know the raw is fine.

I feel like I've seen this question years ago in this site.

The simplest answer would be "sRGB for majorly web uploads, Adobe RPG for majorly printing".

Personally i go sRGB
My camera is sRGB as is my monitor and my printer and most importantly the viewing experience by people looking at my images is going to be on an sRGB monitor.
in my humble opinion higher colour space is not worth it if you cant see it

FrostMonolith wrote in post #19522998
I feel like I've seen this question years ago in this site.

The simplest answer would be "sRGB for majorly web uploads, Adobe RPG for majorly printing".

...IF the printer can accept aRGB files WITHOUT CONVERSION to what they print (sRGB) but many/most cannot print aRGB files!

Not 100% true

sRGB is a safe bet when printing
However depending on your printer and the medium used you can print out of the sRGB colorspace

The most important thing is to have your complete workflow in order. Calibrate your monitor, use the right profile for your printer and paper type and chose the settings for out of bounds colors depending on the image and medium.

If everything is setup correctly you should not worry about colorspaces not fitting anymore. The 'translation" should be done automatically.

When in doubt edit in Adobe rgb and convert to sRGB for printing. It will often yield usable results but you can get more out of the prints if you spend a little bit of time on calibration

I don't often write jpgs in the camera, but when I do, I use sRGB. Guaranteed to work everywhere, and that's kinda the point of shooting jpgs.

I'm watching a Photoshop class from Matt Kloskowski. He covered color space in Lesson 3 because apparently there's a message box that pops up easily in PS about color space and people freak out about it. Half the lesson is about how to turn that off.

But his advice on color space is to use ProPhoto RGB (wider still than Adobe RGB) as soon as you convert from RAW into an intermediate format like PSD or TIFF. He figures it gives PS access to the wider color space, and that can't hurt. Then, when exporting, define the color space to match the display media. You can always go down. You should never go up.

I think the 's' in sRGB stands for santoku. I have a whole block full of kitchen knives that confuse my wife. She doesn't know how to choose. I showed her the 6" santoku. Unless you have a reason not to, use this one. It's small, perfect for most things, and good enough for everything else. But you do have options if the need arises.

sRGB is the 6" santoku of color space. Unless there's a reason not to, use sRGB for your final output. And if you used it all the way through post, that would work just fine too.

Just remember that you should really only be using ProPhotoRGB when you are working in a sixteen bit format. Since you should be matching the colourspace with the appropriate bit depth. If you have to fit a large colourspace in a small bit depth, then you can run into issues with the hues being far enough apart that you might have visible steps between them.

If I'm working in an 8 bit format then I'll stick with sRGB for on screen display, or the relevant paper/printer space if I'm sending the file out to a lab. The lab I use actually does offer a full no adjustment service, and provides profiles for them. Or use sRGB as its close enough for most people.