On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: > 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 ?
Ken, a few times i forgot to save a print as sRGB and had the local Shoppers Drug Mart do the prints, and they seem to come out a bit darker. After redoing them in sRGB they came out like the monitor' Dave > > 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 >> Â godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
