Horoscope Fish
Senior Member
I've always been told that it's better to use the sRGB color gamut for digital photography as general rule and for posting photos online in particular. Recently I've been tempted by the wider gamut of Adobe RGB and wanted to see for myself if there was any reason NOT to use it.
Below are three shots taken with my D7100. Each one was shot in 14-bit RAW, opened in Adobe Camera RAW using the Adobe RGB profile and given the exact same processing (basic adjustments, nothing fancy).
Each photo was then exported to Photoshop where it was resized without any further processing and saved as a JPG.
The whole process was repeated but this time the photos had their color profile re-assigned to sRGB immediately prior to saving as JPG.
From what I can tell, photos look much better when using the Adobe RGB gamut.
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as Adobe RGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as sRGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as Adobe RGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as sRGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as Adobe RGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as sRGB
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Below are three shots taken with my D7100. Each one was shot in 14-bit RAW, opened in Adobe Camera RAW using the Adobe RGB profile and given the exact same processing (basic adjustments, nothing fancy).
Each photo was then exported to Photoshop where it was resized without any further processing and saved as a JPG.
The whole process was repeated but this time the photos had their color profile re-assigned to sRGB immediately prior to saving as JPG.
From what I can tell, photos look much better when using the Adobe RGB gamut.
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as Adobe RGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as sRGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as Adobe RGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as sRGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as Adobe RGB
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^^^ Adobe RGB Saved as sRGB
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