The thing is, that if Kodachrome (Remember?) had looked like it was shot in Adobe RGB, or with HDR, they'd never have sold a single roll. Could it be a conspiracy from the planet Zorg to make ugly pictures on Earth! With HDR and all the other ways to "Extend" the range of our pictures, we're ending up with images that have detail everywhere and colours as subtle as we can get them but they look like crap... The answer: Go to levels and pull in the ol' sliders. Right and left! POOF! There goes all of it! Voila... decent images again. Kidding..... ? >>-----Original Message----- >>From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner- >>photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of karl shah-jenner >>Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 10:18 AM >>To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students >>Subject: Re: More Photoshop Colors Problems >> >>herschel writes RE: More Photoshop Colors Problems >> >> >> >>When you change from Adobe RGB to sRGB you can expect the appearance of >>the >>image to change because it's a different colour space. There's no such >>thing >>as perfect color. Not even "RIGHT" color. Inks, phosphors and all the guys >>at IEC in Paris can't get ONE unified theory on what RED means. Let alone >>what "skin-tone" means. >> >> >>exactly exactly exactly! :) >> >>:The key word is perception. It must look and "Feel" the way you want it >>to. >> >>:Adobe RGB is not much use as an output color space if you haven't worked >>on >>the image. It's too wide gamut and images can look grey and slightly >>muddy. >>sRGB is more punchy and generally better looking at first glance. Adobe >>RGB, >>like RAW files, are good if you want to and are prepared to do some >>sweating >>over a hot computer. They do need a little work but if your images are >>worth >>the work then it's the way to go. >>Otherwise you can get lovely results shooting large fine JPEGS in sRGB (Go >>on... shoot me down technocrats!) >> >>agree completely. >> >>A lot of what you say forms the basis of my own colour profiling >>experience.. something I've been working on for a few years and with a few >>different (large) colour management companies. >> >>Sharing time.. >> >>I've decided to give up on the idea of making $$ out of this mnethod and >>once I put the finnishing touches on it, I'll post a link to PF about a >>really easy way to manage colour >> >>watch for it soon :) >> >>karl
