"Working" Color Space - sRGB, Abobe RGB, and ProPhoto RGB

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Graystar wrote in post #3047732
Very soon now we’ll all be using HD Photo and scRGB, and none of this will matter anymore! Woohoo!

:p

You will when you print on a printer with a gamut that cant support your color space

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Stealth: Costco uploads printer profiles at drycreek photo, and if you convert straight from the ProPhoto to an 8-bit printer profile you'll probably get the best results when you send it to Costco for print (and tell them not to adjust the colors).

From what I think I understand, the reason sRGB is generally preferred for portraits is because they're less likely to have extreme colors. If all the colors fit inside the sRGB gamut, then you'll have more values for better gradations. Adobe RGB takes the same number of colors and spreads them out more so you'll get a wider range (for the same number of bits), but more space between the colors because there are only the same number of colors. But in a landscape photograph, maybe you'll be willing do that tradeoff.

Of course, for web and some labs, sRGB is the best option!

Real Word Color Management (by Bruce Fraser) is supposed to be a good book on color management.

ohtoberich wrote in post #3048628
Real Word Color Management (by Bruce Fraser) is supposed to be a good book on color management.

It is, be prepared to spend a bit of time reading it, color's not so simple.

tim wrote in post #3048712
It is, be prepared to spend a bit of time reading it, color's not so simple.

Yeah, I am struggling getting through the first chapter. And Ithought it was going to be a fun read.

Chapter One is the fun easy reading part of the book!

tim wrote in post #3051990
Chapter One is the fun easy reading part of the book!

Then I am in big trouble.