I have been trying to sort out a curiosity and it may be the Color Profile. When I save a jpg in ProPhoto and send it in iMessage it looks quite dark, but if you open it up you see the brighter colors. Could it be that iMessage is showing the sRGB until it's opened? Then I now wonder what happens when I link an image here that is was save in ProPhoto.
So I am posting the recent Flicker image here saved in both color spaces so I can see what happens on my screen. They are quite different with sRGB on top, yet I am seeing the ProPhoto results as well. I was under the impression that would not come through on the web? I am very confused now. The ProPhoto comes from LRc standard I believe.
Help me understand. First image is sRGB. Second is ProPhoto.
In the Develop module, by default, Lightroom renders previews using the ProPhoto RGB color space. ProPhoto RGB contains all colors that digital cameras can capture, making it an excellent choice for editing images.
Library, Map, Book, and Print modules in Lightroom render colors in the Adobe RGB color space. The Adobe RGB gamut includes most colors that digital cameras can capture together with some printable colors (cyans and blues, in particular) that cannot be defined using the smaller, web-friendly sRGB color space.
Lightroom also uses Adobe RGB for:
So I am posting the recent Flicker image here saved in both color spaces so I can see what happens on my screen. They are quite different with sRGB on top, yet I am seeing the ProPhoto results as well. I was under the impression that would not come through on the web? I am very confused now. The ProPhoto comes from LRc standard I believe.
Help me understand. First image is sRGB. Second is ProPhoto.
In the Develop module, by default, Lightroom renders previews using the ProPhoto RGB color space. ProPhoto RGB contains all colors that digital cameras can capture, making it an excellent choice for editing images.
Library, Map, Book, and Print modules in Lightroom render colors in the Adobe RGB color space. The Adobe RGB gamut includes most colors that digital cameras can capture together with some printable colors (cyans and blues, in particular) that cannot be defined using the smaller, web-friendly sRGB color space.
Lightroom also uses Adobe RGB for:
- Rendering images in the second window. For more details, see Display the Library on a second monitor.
- Images printed in the Draft mode. To know more about the print settings, see Work with print job options and settings.
- Books sent to Blurb.com
- Slideshow and Web modules
- Images exported as JPEGs destined for the web and email
- Uploaded web galleries and PDF slideshows
- Images published to Facebook and other photo-sharing sites using the the Publish Services panel
- If you export books as PDF or JPEG from the Book module, you can choose sRGB or a different color profile.
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