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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: jsch on March 03, 2011, 11:52:16 am

Title: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: jsch on March 03, 2011, 11:52:16 am

Hello,

if I export my Images I can't selec a black and white color space. Usually I use grey with gamma 1.8. What can I do?

Thank you,
Johannes

Title: Re: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: John R Smith on March 03, 2011, 12:09:13 pm

Well, a more usual PS grayscale export is gray gamma 2.2. However, you can't export from Lightroom as anything else but RGB, even if you are working in B/W. I have moaned about this for ages, but no-one at Adobe seems to like me (other than Eric, who is a good guy  ;)). So I have to make a trip to PS to convert the image to grayscale and re-save my TIFFs.

John

Title: Re: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: John R Smith on March 04, 2011, 05:24:33 am

Johannes

I don't have ACR or CS5, just PS Elements, so I can't test that out.

John

Title: Re: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: John R Smith on March 04, 2011, 09:57:45 am

Well, if you can do it from ACR, there really is no excuse for Adobe not to include that option in Lightroom as well. I can't think why they have left it out of the LR export options.

John

Title: Re: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: john beardsworth on March 04, 2011, 10:24:48 am

Probably just lack of demand for it.

Title: Re: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: John R Smith on March 04, 2011, 10:30:05 am

Quote from: johnbeardy on March 04, 2011, 10:24:48 am

Probably just lack of demand for it.

You mean that Johannes and me isn't enough? And as you know, I am extremely demanding . . .

 ;) John

Title: Re: LR3, Export Module, Color Space "Grey 1.8"
Post by: john beardsworth on March 04, 2011, 10:42:47 am

CMYK output is probably requested more often, but ease requirement is usually for some "downstream" processing. As greyscale is in ACR though, it is a little surprising it didn't make the cut.