RAW files are not sRGB or any other flavor of RGB.
when you opened the RAW file and it was converted to an image CAmera RAW was set to make it Adobe RGB.
Is there a way around this? Most of my stuff is for the web, and saved as a jpg when Im done, and I certainly dont want Adobe RGB 1998 for that.
Hello,
Check your color settings (Edit > Color Settings).
Perhaps, your Photoshop silently converts all opened images to Adobe RGB.
Wingspar,
ACR remembers the last used size and profile. Open one in sRGB and you should be ok unless it gets changed again. Andrei also gave good advice. If your default work space is aRGB and your options are set to convert to that when opened you would see similar behavior.
Cheers, Rags 🙂
You are better off saving as Adobe RGB then converting to sRGB when you save for web.
You also want to consider saving as tiff as well for printing.
Edit > Color Settings is set to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. I found this, and set it to sRGB when I first installed CS2.
Also, at the top of the Color Settings Window, is Settings: with a drop down box. Ive never understood this. I just left it as it was when I installed CS3, which is North America General Purpose 2". In the drop down menu there is an option for Monitor Color. Should I be using that? I keep my monitor calibrated with a Monaco unit.
If you open a RAW file, it opens in the Adobe Camera Raw dialog. Since RAW files are not in a particular color space (they are a representation of the original sensor data), you get to pick a color space for the output. Down at the bottom of the ACR dialog is a line that is underlined listing the color space, bit depth, and size at which it will be output. Click on this to get the "workflow options" dialog. You should pick the sRGB color space and 8 bit depth. This will remain the default option the next time you use ACR.
Michael,
Thank you for that. I had no idea that was there. aRGB is probably fine for when Im printing, but I do use ACR for editing jpg images sometimes. I just opened a jpg image in ACR, and it came up aRGB. So, now I know that is there, and learned a valuable lesson tonight. Thanks.