Adobe RGB or sRGB????HELP! I know you know the answer?
I am confused on the whole Adobe RGB and sRGB. I know that Adobe RGB is used for printing (like through a printing company) and can be set on the camera as well as in Photoshop. I also know that if you try to upload it to the web as Adobe RGB your images turn out pale. My question is which should I be using to edit shots that will be viewed on the web and may or may not be chosen for print?
Also, should I shoot in Adobe RGB or sRGB?
Thanks!!!!
Thanks! Well, I will be printing with a professional online printing for clients.
The Basics
sRGB stands for short RGB, ie. pics prepared for the web. Low resolution, amall size. they protect something your work, since whenever someone else donwloaded them, the cannot do great things with them. because the lack of information in the files themselves.
Always shoot with the higest resolution available in your camera since you don’t know when you will take the greates picture in your career, that day you will wish you were taking with RAW. Shoot with RGB so the result postproduction will be better.
JT nailed it, except for one small part. AdobeRGB can be 16-bit but is not necessarily so. When shooting or saving as JPEG, it’s only 8-bit. Other than that, there’s nothing left to add.
p.s. Violator, you’re doing little more than splitting hairs with your diatribe.
CMYK is used for printing…just so you know. If you are planning on using for printing via web then I would use Adobe RGB (1998) as it has a wider gamut.
You are going to find this subject has strong proponents that will support either color space so there will be varying opinions. I know some portrait folks that love sRBG for the subtle color shifts and others who do not use it at all. Ken Rockwell is a strong proponent of sRGB ( http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm )
The adobe RGB will give you "more" colors than the the sRGB particularly in the cyan and green midtones, orange-magenta highlights, and green shadows.( a more accurate way to say this is that sRGB has finer graduation of the colors while aRGB offers a slightly wider selection of colors)
I shoot, and print in adobe RGB and even when I post it online I leave it there. There may be some colors the sRGB won’t get but it will put in the next closest shade and sRB and aRGB on themonitor will look virtually the same. You may have to tweek the gamma some on the display to get them to look the same on the screen, but probably not even that as the default gamma in both sRGB and adobe RGB is 2.2. Adobe is 16 bit RGB instead of 8 bit sRGB so you have more bit depth in post processing
If you primarily shoot for the web only or for 1 hour photolabs you would probably be better off with sRGB
Cambridge colors tutorial says this "What if you desire a speedy workflow, and do not wish to decide on your working space using a case-by-case method? My advice is to use Adobe RGB 1998 if you normally work with 16-bit images, and sRGB if you normally work with 8-bit images"
a good place to read up on it is here
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/sRGB-AdobeRGB1998.htm
and here
http://www.earthboundlight.com/phototips/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-debate.html
In all truth probably either one will work for you so you may base your decision on personal preferences and what works best with your hardware. And if you really want to muddy the waters there is another colorspace called ProPhoto RGB as more and more things go to 32 bit that may the the colorspace that wins the debate
Added : Thanks CKimmerle I should have made note of that. I use RAW so it did not stick in my mind to mention it… my bad