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Question about wide gamut color
Brookie:
I'm a relative newbie to digital photog and am considering getting a monitor to go with my new MBP15. A basic question I have is this: if you do your post-processing in AdobeRGB can you just switch to sRGB and then save a copy to pdf to use for posting or do you have to do your editing all over again in sRGB space?
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
Slobodan Blagojevic:
You do not have to do your editing all over again in most cases. Also, the usual suggestion is to do your editing in an even wider space (than Adobe RGB), like ProPhoto RGB.
Brookie:
Thank you for the reply. So it seems you are basically suggesting i do my editing in the widest gamut available to me, correct?
This would mean that, short of expense, there really is no reason NOT to get a wide gamut monitor even if I am not likely to do too much printing any time soon.
Is there any reason AGAINST getting a wide gamut monitor other than the higher cost?
Slobodan Blagojevic:
It is correct, the general suggestion is to do editing in the widest gamut available (and 16 bit space). However, you do not need a wide gamut monitor to do editing in the wide gamut space. Most of us do not.
One reason not to go for the wide gamut monitor is that users often forget to check how the file they are working on looks on the Internet and on regular monitors (which is a vast majority) and end up with garish looking images.
BobShaw:
Note that you can convert to sRGB or you can assign sRGB. There is no "switch" to sRGB.
You don't say how you are editing.
If in Photoshop I generally use ProPhoto as layered PSD and then save. Then I flatten the image and export whatever format I want then either step backward to the layered PSD or just don't save again.
If in Aperture (same Lightroom / Capture One ) I use a preset of the file type and space I want and just export.
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