I'll stick with Adobe RGB as its worked well for me over the last 13 years
or so of printing on an inkjet.
Have you seen a difference with your workflow between sRGB & Adobe RGB ?
Kenneth Waller
http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f
----- Original Message -----
From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <gdigio...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: lightroom configuration for costco prints
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote:
Thanks Godfrey - well explained.
Would you expect to see a difference on an inkjet print using sRGB and
Adobe
RGB 1988?
Literature I'm familiar with (Photoshop for Nature Photographers by Ellen
Anon & Tim Grey) reccommends using Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB if you're
going
to print the image.
Whether there's a difference or not depends on your printing workflow,
and on the quality of the specific printer/printer driver/profiles,
etc being used. This gets complex.
For instance, most of my photos are printed from Lightroom nowadays.
In Lightroom, the working environment promotes *all* imported photos
to 16bits per channel and the working colorspace is "Melissa" ...
ProPhoto RGB with a 2.2 gamma curve. When I elect to print something,
I can either let the color be managed by the print driver and its
embedded routines (by default, it knows what profile to use for each
of the papers you choose in the media selection), I can print "managed
by printer" but override its profile choices by telling it to use
ColorSync and specifying a particular printing profile. In both of
these cases, Lightroom is doing a relatively minimal job of calling up
the driver and sending it the print datastream as 8bit per component
in sRGB colorspace.
Third option is to color manage the print stream completely ... you
tell the driver to do NO color management, and let Lightroom handle
the translation into the printing profile for that printer/ink/paper
combination explicitly, with you specifying the specific printing
profile for the job. .
The only way to know how to print best for your printer and work is to
experiment with your printing application, printer, and papers.
--
Godfrey
godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com
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