![]() ![]() It’s the colour space most likely to be used for commercial purposes. Submitting photos to a stock library? Again, it will probably be Adobe RGB (1998). If you’ve been asked to submit photos to a magazine, for example, then ask them which colour space is required. Note: Lightroom’s Web module automatically sets the colour space of exported files to sRGB.Īdobe RGB (1998): Use only if requested. SRGB: Use when exporting photos to be displayed online, printed at most commercial labs, or printed with most inkjet printers. It roughly matches the range of colours that a digital camera sensor can capture.Īrmed with this knowledge, here’s a guide to which colour space you should select when exporting your photos: ProPhotoRGB: ProPhoto RGB is the largest of the three. ![]() When you export a photo in Lightroom it gives you the choice of three colour spaces. Note: Gamut is the term used to describe the range of colour values that fit in a colour space. It provides a large colour gamut to work with the wide range of colours that digital sensors are capable of recording. When processing Raw files, Lightroom (and Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop) uses its own colour space based on ProPhoto RGB. ![]() You don’t have to make any decisions about what colour space to work in until you export your photos. Colour management is greatly simplified.If future output devices (monitors, printers etc.) support ProPhotoRGB (they don’t at the moment) then your photos will be ready for them.You can export multiple versions of the same photo, each with a different colour space, if you have need to do so.ProPhotoRGB is the largest colour space, so it is the optimum one to work in. Less colour information is lost during the processing stage.When processing Raw files, Lightroom uses the ProPhotoRGB colour space the whole time, and there’s nothing you can do to change it. In Photoshop, once out of Adobe Camera Raw, you can go to the Colour Settings menu option and tell Photoshop in which colour space you want it to work. One of the key differences between Lightroom and Photoshop is their approach to colour management. This diagram shows the three colour spaces that Lightroom works with. ![]()
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