I think I have asked about this before but at the club we have a good quality Canon projector. Last evening the projector (or maybe software) really did some images no favours at all. Some were overly flat, some were overly contrasty which seems like quite an achievement really if it's the projector.
We are required to submit JPEG images to 1400x1050 max and that's about it.
I'm wondering if the issue is in fact in the way the images have been processed to JPEG as one very precise member was happy with his images and I was pretty much Ok with mine. He uses a Mac and I'm quite careful on a PC with Affinity. However, two other members who are very fastidious in their PP were quite rightly very unhappy with their images which were very garish by their standards.
I confess I have no idea if colour space is relevant here. Should we specify sRGB or something to at least get some consistency?
What is the Color Representation in a JPEG file?
My solution would be to get another projector but apparently the club can't afford one.
Can anyone offer any insights please?
Mike
An important consideration is what software is used to project the images and is it color managed.
Our own club was using locally developed software which was not color managed and we had problems with images encoded with ProphotoRGB. These images looked severely unsaturated. Like most commonly used projectors, ours has a gamut similar to sRGB and images encoded with sRGB project well. AdobeRGB images without color management are affected to a lesser degree. Color management was implemented in our software and images in ProphotoRGB now project normally.
Of course there is no advantage in using ProphotoRGB with an sRGB output device and out of gamut colors will be clipped. However, some of our members use ProphotoRGB as their master color space. We specify sRGB but not everyone will follow instructions and the addition of color management to our software helps to avoid problems.
Bill