this is the end of still camera evolution, hear the violins

Don’t switch displays without closing and restarting Lightroom!!

My Laptop’s IPS monitor works in the sRGB realm, while my NEC PA241W is in the Full realm at 5500K. I guess I connected the laptop to the monitor, didn’t close lightroom and it kept on running in an sRGB mode, even though I had recalibrated for the external monitor.

I have never tried to save both as RAW and JPEG. As the color space setting only affects JPEG images, I’d think that the JPEGs would be then be saved as AdobeRGB (while the RAW images remain unaffected). Indeed, you would need to convert these JPEG image files to sRGB prior to publishing or sending to the printer.

In general, I recommend to use just RAW (and forget about saving JPEGs in-camera) unless you have a good reason to use those JPEGs. The only reason I can think of is the pressure to send images to a news wire, e.g. from an event or a press conference. In that case, however, I’d suggest to use sRGB in-camera, because this allows you to send the image “as is” without further conversion or editing.

Great article, thanks!

Question: My 5DMarkii saves in Raw and jpeg. If I set the color space in the camera to Adobe RGB, then the jpegs are saved that way too, right? So I shouldn’t use those jpegs and just download the RAW files and convert the jpegs to sRGB before I save them?
Thanks!

Now, here’s how to change this image to proper sRGB:

1) If it is 16 bit, reduce the color depth to 8 bits. (Via the Image > Mode > 8 bits per channel command)* If it is already 8 bits, just ignore this step.

2) Go to Edit > Convert to profile, and use “sRGB IEC61966-2.1″ as target color space. Then hit OK.

3) Save as JPEG, and make sure that in the “Save as” dialogue window the Color option “ICC-Profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1″ is checked.

The resulting file will be a properly formatted image, complete with the correctly assigned color profile. Your printer (and anyone else) should be able to use this.

The process is identical for web use, but you can also use the “Save for devices” dialogue which gives you more control over the compression. However, when using this command, please ensure that you have the option “Embed color profile” checked. This will allow web browsers that use color management (e.g. Firefox) to correctly identify the color profile. Other browsers, such as Internet Explorer, do not use color profiles, so the resulting impression is unknown to you (as it solely depends on the users screen).

* I do just have the German Photoshop in front of me, so the commands may be different in the English version.

For now, I have some photos shot in JPEG that I wish to send to a printer who’s asked for sRGB instead of RGB files, and publish them on the web at the best quality possible also.

How do I go about converting my saved JPEGs (in RGB) into sRGB JPEGs? Is there a method either in Photoshop or via some other method you might be able to recommend? Many thanks, NP.