Originally Posted by
Corran
IMO, a lot of the time when folks who go down the rabbit hole of different color spaces end up just wrecking their files anyway, especially at the end level of printing or online sharing. You have to have an absolute mastery of all the variables and really have your process calibrated end-to-end.
Back when I was working at a different university I audited a class so as to use the university equipment (printers). I was using both digital files and scans. Everything I did was sRGB and I pretty much came in with edited scans/jpegs, did a couple small test prints, and then after some slight tweaks if needed made the master print. During this there was a digital color photography class also being taught and they were all instructed to use AdobeRGB throughout the imaging chain. Those poor students suffered to no end with bad color, color variability from file to print, and other issues. Several asked me "what was my secret." I told them I just use sRGB for everything. I think some of them switched w/o the instructor knowing to just using sRGB.
Furthermore, if I send out for color prints, almost always I get a perfect representation of what's on my screen to what I get in the mail. Unless you are working with a super pro lab who's giving you a calibration profile and you are doing many test prints (and inspecting them!), anything other than sRGB is asking for a whole lot of trouble and headache IMO. And no, Blurb is not a "pro lab" by any means. The only trouble I have ever had is with accidentally sending grayscale images rather than desaturated or slightly toned "RGB color" images. That was my fault though, and I received images with very slight reddish hues in the highlights that really only I noticed when in-hand and disappeared behind glass.
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