![]() If you use a tandem of Lightroom and Photoshop, Adobe makes this conversion process painless for you. How to Accurately Convert Your Photos from AdobeRGB to sRGB However, if you’re 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. It’ll be the surefire way to guarantee that your photos look great on the web, and still look accurate in print. If you’re not printing your work often, sRGB is the choice of color space for you. However, this is a one way street, as sRGB is unable to accurately convert back to AdobeRGB. When shooting in AdobeRGB, you're able to convert it to sRGB at any time, without any loss of color in your images. 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. This allows for more vibrant colors in your prints, with better color consistency that your own monitor cannot even replicate. Printers, have began adapting the AdobeRGB color space. However, if you’re printing your work, you’re losing potential colors in your images by shooting sRGB. So why not shoot in sRGB full time? You absolutely can. If you shoot in AdobeRGB, and let web convert your photos, you’ll be left with dull, muted tones. The photo above is an unedited photo that I took this summer. Since most web browsers have adapted sRGB 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’ll do a terrible job at it, as shown below. Even screen calibrators will often tell you how much of the color gamut you're able to display. 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 the monitor you’re using likely cannot display all the colors of AdobeRGB. The internet, video games, applications, personal devices, and most everything else has adapted sRGB as their standard for color space. SRGB came first, and almost everything on a computer is built around sRGB. But does that make it the best for photography? Not exactly, as the world works with sRGB far more than it does with AdobeRGB. How much better? They say that AdobeRGB is able to represent about 35% more color ranges than sRGB is able to. AdobeRGB, by all accounts is better, as it represents a wider range of colors. To better understand which one to use, you must first understand the difference between the two. You’ll also have the option of converting it to one or the other in post processing (with limitations), but which one should you use? If you go into your camera’s settings, you’ll see that you’ll have the option of using either, straight out of the camera. In digital photography, there are two main types of color spaces, AdobeRGB and sRGB. In situations where you're photographing strong color tones, sRGB may need to dull them out to accommodate, whereas AdobeRGB is able to display those colors with more accuracy. ![]() ![]() This means photos taken in the AdobeRGB color space will have more vibrancy in their colors, whereas sRGB will traditionally have more subtle tones. Both images contain only three colors, however, the colors shown in the AdobeRGB scale have more differential between them. The difference lies within what is considered wider and narrower color spaces. Different color spaces allows for you to use a broader or narrower range of those 16.7 million colors used in a JPEG image. JPEG images can contain up to 16.7 million colors, though neither color space actually uses all 16.7 million colors available. In layman's terms, color space is just a specific range of colors that can be represented in a given photo. ![]()
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