Submitted by Ron (not verified) on Mon, 2007-09-10 20:25.
Hello
Ron here.
Andre thanks for your response on your web site. About the “final mile” dealing with images for the web or for printing. This is a real issue for people like me that have web sites and also do occasional printing.
It seems to me that pro-am photographers have a dilemma of sorts. That dilemma is “what do we want to do with our photos? My point here is I do not make my living selling my photography, however it is a serious hobby, and many of us have substantial investments in our equipment and time we spend.
The question is then what “Work Flow” would be the best for someone that puts together Photo Web Sites. A complicated print proofing procedure with printing profiles etc. might be a waste of time if that result would not be required or even desirable if all you want is a good presentable sRGB image to upload to a web site.
You say your workspace for editing is in Adobe ProPhoto RGB. This gives you a large color working space but requires you to convert to sRGB for any uploading to your web sites. My question is this: If I assume my photos final destination is a website… why shouldn’t I edit in the final color space (sRGB) I am going to use in the “final mile” when I upload to my web site? Seems right that I then would be editing my images in a similar workspace that the majority of people would be viewing the photos on their Browser. (I note the interesting note from Marc about Safari respecting color profiles.)
The issue of doing work on a photo in one color space say (ProPhoto RGB) then doing a conversion to another is problematic. I can see the same issue when going to print, especially when the printers have a reduced color capability. I agree that you certainly can make better edits in the largest color space but it seems that a final convert to a smaller color space (sRGB) could go either way when viewed in a Browser.
Ron
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Hello
Ron here.
Andre thanks for your response on your web site. About the “final mile” dealing with images for the web or for printing. This is a real issue for people like me that have web sites and also do occasional printing.
It seems to me that pro-am photographers have a dilemma of sorts. That dilemma is “what do we want to do with our photos? My point here is I do not make my living selling my photography, however it is a serious hobby, and many of us have substantial investments in our equipment and time we spend.
The question is then what “Work Flow” would be the best for someone that puts together Photo Web Sites. A complicated print proofing procedure with printing profiles etc. might be a waste of time if that result would not be required or even desirable if all you want is a good presentable sRGB image to upload to a web site.
You say your workspace for editing is in Adobe ProPhoto RGB. This gives you a large color working space but requires you to convert to sRGB for any uploading to your web sites. My question is this: If I assume my photos final destination is a website… why shouldn’t I edit in the final color space (sRGB) I am going to use in the “final mile” when I upload to my web site? Seems right that I then would be editing my images in a similar workspace that the majority of people would be viewing the photos on their Browser. (I note the interesting note from Marc about Safari respecting color profiles.)
The issue of doing work on a photo in one color space say (ProPhoto RGB) then doing a conversion to another is problematic. I can see the same issue when going to print, especially when the printers have a reduced color capability. I agree that you certainly can make better edits in the largest color space but it seems that a final convert to a smaller color space (sRGB) could go either way when viewed in a Browser.
Ron