What is Color Space?<\/strong>
\nIn layman’s terms, color space is just a specific range of colors that can be represented in a given photo. JPEG images can contain up to 16.7 million colors, though neither color space actually uses all 16.7 million colors available. Different color spaces allows for you to use a broader or narrower range of those 16.7 million colors used in a JPEG image. The difference lies within what is considered wider and narrower color spaces.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kijkenenzien.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ColorRangessRGBAdobeRGB.jpg\")
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The image above explains it pretty well. Both images contain only three colors, however, the colors shown in the AdobeRGB scale have more differential between them. This means photos taken in the AdobeRGB color space will have more\u00a0vibrancy\u00a0in their colors, whereas sRGB will traditionally have more\u00a0subtle\u00a0tones. In situations where you’re photographing strong color tones, sRGB may need to dull them out to\u00a0accommodate, whereas AdobeRGB is able to display those colors with more accuracy.<\/p>\n
In digital photography, there are two main types of color spaces, AdobeRGB and sRGB. If you go into your camera\u2019s settings, you\u2019ll see that you\u2019ll have the option of using either, straight out of the camera. You\u2019ll also have the option of converting it to one or the other in post processing (with limitations), but which one should you use?<\/p>\n
To better understand which one to use, you must first understand the difference between the two. AdobeRGB, by all accounts is better, as it represents a wider range of colors. How much better? They say that AdobeRGB is able to represent about 35% more color ranges than sRGB is able to. But does that make it the best for photography? Not exactly, as the world works with sRGB far more than it does with AdobeRGB.<\/p>\n
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sRGB came first, and almost everything on a computer is built around sRGB. The internet, video games, applications, personal devices, and most everything else has adapted sRGB as their standard for color space. Even the monitor you\u2019re using likely cannot display all the colors of AdobeRGB. That’s right, most traditional computer monitors can only display about 97% of the sRGB color space, and only about 76% of the AdobeRGB color space. Even screen calibrators will often tell you how much of the color gamut you’re able to display.<\/p>\n
Since most web browsers have\u00a0adapted\u00a0sRGB as its color space, if you upload an image to the internet with the AdobeRGB gamut, the browser will convert it to sRGB, and it\u2019ll do a terrible job at it, as shown below.<\/p>\n
The photo above is an unedited photo that I took this summer. If you shoot in AdobeRGB, and let web convert your photos, you\u2019ll be left with dull, muted tones. So why not shoot in sRGB full time? You absolutely can. However, if you\u2019re printing your work, you\u2019re losing potential colors in your images by shooting sRGB.<\/p>\n
Printers, have began adapting the AdobeRGB color space. This allows for more vibrant colors in your prints, with better color consistency that your own monitor cannot even replicate. But do you want your prints to look differently than they do on your monitor? I say yes, as it provides richer colors that bring out details that would otherwise go unseen.<\/p>\n
When shooting in AdobeRGB, you’re able to convert it to sRGB at any time, without any loss of color in your images. However, this is a one way street, as sRGB is unable to accurately convert back to AdobeRGB.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re not printing your work often, sRGB is the choice of color space for you.<\/strong> It\u2019ll be the surefire way to guarantee that your photos look great on the web, and still look accurate in print. However, if you\u2019re often printing your work, and looking for vibrant colors, AdobeRGB may be the choice for you, it just adds a few steps to your workflow process, as you’ll need to save them as sRGB to correctly display them on the web.<\/p>\nHow to Accurately Convert Your Photos from AdobeRGB to sRGB.\u00a0<\/strong>If you use a tandem of Lightroom and Photoshop, Adobe makes this conversion process painless for you. My workflow, and many others consists of loading images into Lightroom, making basic corrections, then importing the image directly into Photoshop. Upon importing to Photoshop, you can have your images converted for web with just a few simple setting adjustments. Simply go into Edit>>Preferences>>External Editing and adjust your color space to sRGB when being imported to Photoshop. This technique is the most preferred, as it’ll automatically convert all images you export to Photoshop to sRGB, without any color loss in the web format. This will also allow you to keep both an AdobeRGB copy of the image for print, and an sRGB version to use for web and everything else.<\/p>\nIn Adobe Photoshop.\u00a0<\/strong>If you work without Lightroom and still want the benefits of AdobeRGB color space, you can also convert your images for web in Photoshop. Simply navigate through your menus to Edit>>Convert To Profile and change your destination space to sRGB after editing your image. To insure that you do this everytime, I recommend you incorporate it an action used for saving your images. Remember, failure to convert your images prior to saving them for web will result in dull and unflattering color tones.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kijkenenzien.nl\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ProsCons.jpg\")
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Conclusion.\u00a0<\/strong>If this at all confuses you and leaves you feeling overwhelmed, switch your camera to sRGB color space, and leave it like that. It’ll still allow you to photograph and print beautiful images. However, if you’re shooting specifically for print, AdobeRGB offers more range and versatility in the images taken. It all really comes down to personal preference, AdobeRGB does offer more colors, but at the cost of complicating things for a subtle difference in your photos. However, if you’re a perfectionist, like myself, the extra steps taken to shoot in AdobeRGB may be worth the headache to achieve nicer prints, and get the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n[Bron:\u00a0https:\/\/fstoppers.com\/pictures\/adobergb-vs-srgb-3167]<\/p>\n
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