Scott W wrote:
On Mar 5, 6:53 am, "stormlady" wrote:

On Mar 5, 1:38 pm, Paul Furman wrote:


With adobe, you need to use a color managed program to view the files
like photoshop and you need to convert to sRGB for posting to the web so
it can be kind of a hassle but yes adobe has a larger gamut so that very
intense saturated colors are less prone to posterization especially when
manipulating further. Some people argue that sRGB 'looks' more saturated
and vibrant, I'm not sure about that, perhaps adobe is more subtle but
the point is you can crank up the saturation without harm.- Hide quoted text -

Now I think I'm more confused. I shot a concert this weekend, with
the D80, in adobe RGB, and I just opened the files with the windows
viewer and looked at them with that. Then I picked a few and posted
them to a binaries newsgroup that I subscribe to. Everything seemed
to work fine, and other people saw the pictures.

It doesn't look that bad but adobeRGB will look a little bit washed out
usually without color management.

This shot I forgot to convert to sRGB:
http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Peninsula/sweeney-ridge/2007-03-04&PG=3&PIC=13
This one I remembered & the red shirts are a bit more vibrant:
http://www.edgehill.net/1/?SC=go.php&DIR=California/Bay-Area/Peninsula/sweeney-ridge/2007-03-04&PG=3&PIC=14
I run most of those through a bach action to resize & convert but those
I wanted at a different size.

I don't have a copy of Photoshop (unfortunately) and am not really
able to get one due to the prohibitive cost involved. Which is also
the reason that I don't shoot in RAW, even though I would prefer to do
that.

If you don't have Photoshop then I would only work in sRGB.

You can probably afford PS elements though. And if you shoot RAW, you
can choose the color space after the fact. It's a good idea to shoot RAW
plus jpeg if you can afford the time & storage space, just in case you
get a really great image that you want to enlarge or need to make major
adjustments to correct, recover highlights, brighten the shadows, etc.
Just save the RAW files for your favorite images and you can come back
later when you decide to make some nice prints and have learned how to
post process better.