RGB Color space

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Bobby Reasons
Sep 24, 2003
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I just got Scott Kelbys, the photoshop book for Digital photographers.It said the frist thing you need to change when working with photos is the RGB Color space. Photoshops default setting is sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Scotts setting is Adobe RGB(1998).But since I made this change I get a box that pops up when I try to open a JPEG Image that says,The document JPG. has an embedded color profile that does not match the current RGB working space. Then it asks how you want to proceed.
1.Use the embedded profile(instead of the working space)
2.Convert documents colors to the working space.
3.Discard the embedded profile(don’t color manage.
What can I do to correct this? Will I have to change each image that I open?Your help will be greatly apprecitated.Thanks
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brent bertram
Sep 24, 2003
Ian Lyons has a number of tutorials on Photoshop color management, including setting up your color default settings, <http://www.computer-darkroom.com/ps7-colour/ps7_1.htm> , you’d probably benefit from checking it out. I suspect you are talking about JPG images from your digital camera ( which imbeds EXIF data telling Photoshop the colorspace of the image is sRGB ). The IgnoreEXIF utility can clear up this problem, if you want.

Read Ian’s tutorial, then download the IgnoreEXIF utility ( it’s action is reversible, so you can go back and forth, if you want ), and see if this helps you out. There are good reasons why you might want to know that an image already has an imbedded color space, so you’ll have to think about your choices here.

🙂

Brent
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Phosphor
Sep 25, 2003
Bobby – what makes you think it’s an error?

It’s just asking you what to do because the color spaces don’t match.
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Roseanne Minasian
Sep 25, 2003
HI, I was color correcting some old photos and used Kelby’s recommendation for color settings as you did. He does mention that this setting becomes your default setting. It really is a neat and fast way to do color correction. As Chris Cox says "It’s just asking you what to do" I use convert colors to working space which converts your pictures to your your new working space setting. Ian Lyon has wonderful information on color settings. Especially for Epson printers……..

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