{"id":5957,"date":"2011-06-16T05:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T09:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=5957"},"modified":"2021-11-18T22:07:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T22:07:27","slug":"editing-spaces-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/5957\/editing-spaces-compared\/","title":{"rendered":"Editing Spaces Compared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/editingspacescompared.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5959\" title=\"editingspacescompared\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/editingspacescompared.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Four standard device-neutral RGB editing spaces compared<\/em><br \/>\n<em>sRGB \u2013 red; Colormatch \u2013 green; Adobe RGB \u2013 blue; ProPhoto \u2013 full color<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From small to large, standard RGB editing spaces include sRGB, Colormatch, Adobe RGB (1998), and ProPhoto. Only ProPhoto RGB can contain as much or more color as your camera can capture. This is why I recommend ProPhoto RGB as my first choice of these editing spaces. ProPhoto RGB has the widest gamut.<\/p>\n<p>The term gamut is used to describe the total capacity of a color space. Wider gamut color spaces are capable of containing more saturated color than smaller gamut color spaces. ICC profiles are used to describe color spaces. ICC profiles can be graphed as XY chromaticity diagrams, which can be used to compare the gamuts of color spaces. On the center, axis are neutral colors. As you move away from the center color becomes more saturated. A larger area indicates a greater ability to hold more saturated data. The contour defining that area marks the gamut boundary, the limit of saturation that color space is capable of holding.<\/p>\n<p>Capture your images in wide-gamut color (Raw) and edit them in wide-gamut color (ProPhoto RGB). Convert only copies of your master files into smaller gamut spaces for output-specific uses. Converting images from wider gamut spaces to smaller gamut spaces reduces saturation. Converting images in smaller gamut spaces to wider gamut spaces doesn\u2019t increase saturation.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Think of a bucket full of water. If the water is color, then the bucket that holds it is the editing space. If you pour water from a big bucket into a small bucket, some of the water will be lost. Pouring the smaller volume of water back into the larger bucket won\u2019t make the total volume of water larger; it will be the same amount of water sitting in a larger bucket. Start wide and stay wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/37735\/mastering-color-management\/\">Read more on Color Management here.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/37761\/the-fine-art-of-digital-printing\/\"><strong>Read more on digital Printing here.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/workshops\/\">Learn more in my digital photography and digital printing workshops.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four standard device-neutral RGB editing spaces compared sRGB \u2013 red; Colormatch \u2013 green; Adobe RGB \u2013 blue; ProPhoto \u2013 full color &nbsp; From small to large, standard RGB editing spaces include sRGB, Colormatch, Adobe RGB (1998), and ProPhoto. 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