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Colour Space question
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When I am opening an image in Photoshop I am always asked
“The document “XXX” has an embedded colour profile that does not match the current RGB working space.
Embedded sRGB IEC61966-2.1
Working : Adobe RGB (1998)What would you like to do ?
1. Use the embedded profile (instead of the working space)
2. Convert documents colours to the working space
3. Discard the embedded profile (don’t color manage)I have been choosing option 2, but is this correct ?
what kind of images are you opening, JPGs? or raw
if its raw you can change the colour space on import
i would suggest you actually choose 1. converting can change colours
i would change it to adobe rgb, srgb is the lowest quality color space…
there no such thing as lowest quality colour space
sRGB is not as large a colour spce as RGB BUT if your printing using a home prints, it wont get near adobeRGB anyway
also depends on the kind of images, as sRGB works better mathematically for certain kinds of images
more importantly the images have been tagged with sRGB somewhere changing the colour space doesnt give you more info and can impact on the colour accuracy
poor wording, apologies. but it is a smaller range.
surely though if it is in sRGB and one is working in another colour space one is not seeing what will print and therefore potentially going to be disappointed.
if its in s rgb and and youre leaving it there with the intention of printing on a home printer then i would work in that space so you’re really seeing it.
I’ve always found this website to be useful
http://fire.ie/blog/category/tip_of_the_week/
a place where sRGB might actually be better is close up portraits for example
because the colour space is described in 256 steps per channel (8 bits in a jpg) . so if the colour space is wider the steps are bigger
with skin the tone is so smooth that the smaller steps with give you better tone in the print
BUT, a more important issue is that the file has been created with that colour space for a reason, need to firstly figure out why. then workedin that colour space if there is a valid reason
moral of the story, bigger is not always better
Thanks for the responses folks.
I have worked with PS on a a windows machine and my Nikon D200 for years without ever seeing this message. I bought an iMac at xmas and am using PS CS5 on it and the same camera and it asks me this question everytime I open an image via bridge in PS.
I did not change anything so I was unsure of what to do when this message kept appearing. I selected option 2 and then continued to select it because it did not “break” anything on me :)
I sometimes print my own images and other times send them off to be printed. So what is the best thing for me to do here.
Cheers.
Mark.
if your opening raw images, at the bottom of camera raw plugin, there is a hyperlink looking thing, click it and you can change imported image colour space so it then wont ask you
On your D200 change the colour space to adobe rgb, its in the menus…. You won’t get asked this question again then on import. Your better of setting your camera to adobe rgb anyhow, the raw files won’t be any larger and there will be allot more info in the raw file so you minimize banding etc while post processing
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Isabella wrote:
poor wording, apologies. but it is a smaller range.
surely though if it is in sRGB and one is working in another colour space one is not seeing what will print and therefore potentially going to be disappointed.
if its in s rgb and and youre leaving it there with the intention of printing on a home printer then i would work in that space so you’re really seeing it.
I’ve always found this website to be useful
That website is really usefu. Got a lot of tips there. Even the right amount of colour ink and brand.
Having done more than a little work in the area of colour management I would suggest that unless you are prepared to read up and understand the subject fully then you should always work in the sRGB colour space. Your life will be easier, you won’t get nasty surprises and you will sleep well at night. Also, unless you have calibrated your monitor properly, there is no point in worrying about colour spaces.
I’m not trying to be patronising.
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