sRGB

Choosing a Colorspace–When to Go Large

Submitted by David Cardinal on Fri, 12/31/2010 - 11:22

For most folks it is enough trouble to get their images sorted, filed and emailed or printed. But for the dedicated few who take the extra time to work on them in Photoshop it isn’t long before they stumble across the topic of colorspaces. Like most things in photography once you know about it you can find endless and often contradictory advice about what it is and how to deal with it. The topic came up again on our recent photo safari so I thought it would be a good time to help clarify things…

Colorspace
Adobe RGB
sRGB
Pro Photo RGB
bit depth
16-bit
8-bit