sRGB or Adobe RGB ?

sRGB or Adobe RGB ?
Just wondering which of these two color space settings people are using and why?

Use sRGB if most of your pictures are going to be presented on the Web, or if you plan to print them in the lab.
If you have photo printer and want to print most of your pictures yourself, use Adobe RGB.

Hermeto wrote in post #7276390
Use sRGB if most of your pictures are going to be presented on the Web, or if you plan to print them in the lab.
If you have photo printer and want to print most of your pictures yourself, use Adobe RGB.

I was told opposite of this! I don't like to print my photo at home! I prefer the professional to do it! So I should be using SRGB?

Most of the labs will require sRGB, but you should always check..

sRGB for web and send off.
AdobeRGB when you know why not to use sRGB

Have a read in a few of the links in the link from my sig...

If you don't already know the answer....sRGB

I use sRGB as I print at Costco and display on web.

I shoot in Adobe RGB and process in ProPhotoRGB since I do all my own printing. Even if I didn't, I would still us AdobeRGB and just convert the profile in Photoshop if I wanted to use it for the web or an outside lab.

If I print raw directly from Lightroom, does the program itself convert the picture to sRGB or Abobe RGB 1998 before sending to the printer?

Az2Africa wrote in post #7286530
I shoot in Adobe RGB and process in ProPhotoRGB since I do all my own printing. Even if I didn't, I would still us AdobeRGB and just convert the profile in Photoshop if I wanted to use it for the web or an outside lab.

Since you "shoot in AdobeRGB", I presume you shoot jpg?

You realise that the conversion to ProPhotoRGB brings no benefit?

Slightly off topic so I apologise in advance. But Rene has raised something I've thought for a while.

That is, what advantage is a wide gamut monitor to us photographers? 99.99% of my output is print with a bit sent to zenfolio link below. So I use aRGB and sRGB and don't understand what benefit there could be from showing gamuts wider than I can ever see. What am I missing here?

Inkjet printers can print colors that fall outside sRGB gamut.
That's why, for a AdobeRGB workflow, a wide gamut monitor can be an advantage.

If your workflow and output is sRGB there's no advantage IMO, and there are possible disadvantages.

I realize the the camera setting only applies to jpeg. I seldom shoot jpeg, but when I do, my camera is set to AdobeRGB.
As far as shooting in raw and processing in ProPhotoRGB, there is a larger gamut and more to draw from. I use a decent monitor and printer and wish to take advantage of as much information as possible.

Az2Africa and Rene,

Thanks for the answers. I suppose my belief stems from the fact that I've never seen any real visual difference in prints made from either sRGB and aRGB. I say visual, because I am aware that there is an actual difference, but it is extremely subtle.

So when using a wide gamut monitor and something like ProPhotoRGB, is there a dramatic change when the image is softproofed prior to printing?

Use RAW for everything, and when it needs to be a tiff, use ProPhoto. For PSD, LAB. 99% of my output files though are in sRGB simply because they go online.

Lowner wrote in post #7287205
Az2Africa and Rene,

Thanks for the answers. I suppose my belief stems from the fact that I've never seen any real visual difference in prints made from either sRGB and aRGB. I say visual, because I am aware that there is an actual difference, but it is extremely subtle.

So when using a wide gamut monitor and something like ProPhotoRGB, is there a dramatic change when the image is softproofed prior to printing?

When the monitor is calbrated and the custom profile for the paper used is done right, I see very little change when softproofing. They say it's best to look away and then hit the botton and then look at the image to see if you notice the difference. At most I may add a tiny bit of saturation. Usually nothing if everything is set right.
Some papers however; even after making a profile do shift for some reason and require a tweak in the softproof. I notice it more with printing on canvas. Breathing Color canvas seems to need the least. For me anyway.