All of these extra colors in Adobe RGB are great for viewing on a computer monitor, but can we actually reproduce them in a print? It would be a shame to edit using these extra colors, only to later retract their intensity due to printer limitations. A Fuji Frontier printer is what large companies such as Walmart use for making their prints. We see a big difference in how each printer uses the additional colors provided by Adobe RGB The Fuji Frontier only uses a small patch of yellow in the highlights, whereas the high-end inkjet printer exceeds sRGB for colors in shadows, midtones, and highlights.
The high-end inkjet even exceeds the gamut of Adobe RGB for cyan-green midtones and yellow highlights. The printer should also be considered when choosing a color space, as this can have a big influence on whether the extra colors are utilized. Most mid-range printer companies provide a downloadable color profile for their printer. This color profile can help you achieve similar conclusions to those visible in the above analysis. Since the Adobe RGB working space clearly provides more colors to work with, why not just use it in every situation?
Another factor to consider is how each working space influences the distribution of your image's bit depth. Color spaces with larger gamuts "stretch" the bits over a broader region of colors, whereas smaller gamuts concentrate these bits within a narrow region. Consider the following green "color spaces" on a line:.
If our image contained only shades of green in the small gamut color space, then we would be wasting bits by allocating them to encode colors outside the small gamut:.
A similar concentration of bit depth occurs with sRGB versus Adobe RGB , except in three dimensions, and not quite as dramatic as demonstrated above. On the other hand, you may have plenty of "spare" bits if you are using a bit image, and so any reduction due to your choice of working space might be negligible.
This may also lead to unintended colors when printing these images. In this case, operating in sRGB decreases the chance of colors being displayed incorrectly. When working in sRGB, we see the colors the same across devices. With an Adobe RGB monitor, the colors on the monitor can match the colors in a print, allowing for improved soft proofing accuracy. In a world of sites, yours is the only that answer the question mentioned at point Very useful indeed!
Thank you for very useful info. I am trying to understand something. Hello Omer. Hi there! Thank you for writing this, I have sort of a stupid question. If all printers print with CMYK save for spot colors why do we even worry about which RGB space the image is in when being processed on the computer?
Paper and inks can never have the gamut that a screen does, so how are those connected? Looking forward to your reply! The images you see on digital screens are also in sRGB unless you have a wide gamut screen. Hope that makes sense! I edit in srgb and my lab prints srgb so why are my images desaturated? The prints look different than my images on my monitor.
The images on my monitor look beautiful and full of color but prints are dull and desaturated. Hi, thanks for your article. Why it even exist that color space? Not talking about color spaces of the actual photos here, just my monitors view of what I am editing:. My audience and most of the average world can only see SRGB likley, so to them it likely looks dull and desaturated, correct?
Make sense? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Thank you in advance for supporting Click it up a Notch. When should I be using sRGB vs.
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