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I want to shoot few photos using smartphone. Nature, landscapes. From smartphone I will receive JPEGs, RGB. I will trasfer them to computer. Next step I will convert them to TIFFs. Next step I will crop some of them, I will do color correction. Next step I will make JPEGs for delivering and I will publish these JPEGs in my blog.
Which color model to use while editing photos? RGB? Or some else?
Instead of thinking about colour space better check if your camera can take RAW photos (usually DNG). On most of the cameras this is named Pro mode (Android). If you use Apple device download Lightroom and use it to make RAW photos.
I am not aware of phone which can take photos in colour space other than RGB. And my advise is to stay with it.
The trick is to only change colour profile once
You can do it at initial import, or you can do it right at the end before you save your final output, so long as you only do it once.
If your output is for a printer, ask them what profile they want to receive. Many commercial consumer-level printers these days want your output as sRGB.
If you're going to do any serious editing, don't use jpeg format to shoot in. Use HEIC. Much better quality than compressed jpeg. As was stated above RGB is what these phones shoot so use that as the editing space. I've heard some people recommending Lab color but unless you have a 16-bit image to start (doubtful ) it will get degraded going to 8bit Lab color. Choose the RGB colorspace to shoot in based on what your final result will be. If you're going to a wide gamut inkjet print then shoot in Adobe RGB otherwise for internet use sRGB is fine.
