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Colour Management
I have a laptop. I have an Xrite colour display calibration tool. I have CS6.
It may seem an idiotic question but in all my reading no one explains it simply. I profiled my monitor. It gave me a ...
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How is color represented in RAW formats?
I was browsing the forum and found this thread:
Does the selection of sRGB or Adobe RGB in camera when shooting RAW ever matter?
It makes sense that the selection of either sRGB or Adobe RGB as the ...
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Adobe RGB to sRGB conversion, why does the color change?
When I convert my photos from Adobe RGB colorspace to sRGB for browsers, the color slightly changes and I’m bothered by it. I know that sRGB covers a smaller space of colors so I won’t get an exact ...
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Losslessly batch convert many JPEGs to sRGB?
Recently I came across a bunch of weird JPEGs; here's one of them.
In Firefox 16.0.2 and ACDSee it looks much more vibrant:
However in Internet Explorer 9/MS Paint/Paint.NET 3.5.10 (on Windows 7 ...
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Should I use “sRGB mode” on my computer screen?
I recently acquired the ASUS PA248Q screen for photo processing (and everyday use and gaming: I have just that one display). This display offers a "sRGB" mode.
Right now the screen is configured to ...
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What is the color reproduction accuracy on mid-2012 non-Retina Macbook Pro-s and how applicable it is for photo editing?
What is the color reproduction accuracy (sRGB color space coverage) for Apple Macbook Pro non-Retina models from mid-2012 and how applicable it is for photo editing?
I read that MBP Retina display ...
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Understanding Hue, and is there something else I should be using?
I am trying to isolate objects of a certain color in an image. Looking at this image, you can see that I have extracted the hue channel, and have filtered these values so that the closer a pixel's hue ...
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Search a YcBcR color picker
Is there any YcRcB Color-Picker so that I can better understand the color space?
For example I want to get the range from the blue sky or from green grass.
I need this ranges to detect landscape and ...
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Does the selection of sRGB or Adobe RGB in camera when shooting RAW ever matter?
In talking to a colleague of mine yesterday, we got onto the subject of color spaces in digital photography. He's a Nikon buff, I use Canon (specifically, an EOS 50D); I don't know if that is relevant ...
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Should I perform the final color space conversion before or after final sharpening of an image?
When preparing an image for the web (or other media), the last two steps is usually to resize the image to the desired resolution and sharpen it at that resolution. However, when working in a ...
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What does the under/overexposure warning mean in image editing software?
We all know exposure warnings that a digital camera offers: If shows which parts are so bright or dark that there's no more distinction towards even brighter or darker areas possible. Meaning that ...
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What's the difference between Adobe RGB and sRGB and which should I set in my camera?
In my Canon 60D, there's a setting between Adobe RGB and sRGB. What's the difference and what should I prefer when shooting to RAW ?
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What is the photopic luminous efficiency function?
What is the photopic luminous efficiency function?
Is it actually a the, or are there multiple such functions? Is it an absolute fact of nature or simply an agreed-on standard? If the later, who ...
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Why isn't the xvYCC color space seeing uptake for still photography?
For the last fifteen years, sRGB has been the primary standard for computer monitors (and for consumer-level printing). That's changing now, as wider-gamut LED-backlit monitors become common. Usually, ...
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How much of a difference do different color spaces make?
How much of a difference does it make to use one of the extended colorspaces vs. the normal sRGB? And what difference does it make?
Are there situations where it is not important, and conversely are ...
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