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How can I check how much of sRGB and AdobeRGB my monitor covers in percentage?
The tool displaycal-profile-info, part of the DisplayCAL package, can do this. This works (and works basically the same way) for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
See for ...
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What is the purpose of gamma correction in today's screens and how does it relate to graphics and photography?
I am a former broadcast engineer, and I currently work in feature films and television as an editor and VFX supervisor.
Many statements on here are incorrect. Gamma in the signal path is a desired ...
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Is calibrating a monitor for sRGB and CMYK different?
This is a very incomplete answer, but important in regards to terminology and understanding everything: RGB and CMYK are color models. They don't define what your monitor or printer can do, only how ...
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Are colour profiles ever stored in RAW files?
Part of this question basically seems to be asking if the answers to the other question are actually right. For that part, don't worry — they are. (And no information is lost in this way — the leader ...
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Should I use ProPhoto RGB?
Let me first say that everything that's happening is exactly how it should be. Even the fact that Photoshop gives you a warning, which is a matter of its Color Settings (see below). And your concerns ...
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Is calibrating a monitor for sRGB and CMYK different?
In my opinion the designer is wrong.
CMYK is NOT a subset of sRGB. It is a diferent color model.
Let me explain.
sRGB is a color profile for rgb colors. But actually it is close to a "color space" (...
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Can I simplify my workflow by shooting in Adobe RAW?
That Adobe seems to butcher the colors of all my raws drives me nuts
You are wrong here. What you see on the back of your camera is not the raw file, but the JPEG preview, which includes whatever ...
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Is it true that a camera sensor will never receive an RGB value of R 0 G 255 B 0?
Camera sensors are designed to mimic the way the human eye/brain system perceives a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum as light. Our brains create the perception of color when stimulated by ...
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Change JPEG ColorSpace Encoding value
In Adobe Photoshop, there are two menu options: "Assign Profile" and "Convert to Profile". If you have an image in the ProPhoto RGB color space, and you "assign profile" sRGB, this just changes the ...
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How can I check how much of sRGB and AdobeRGB my monitor covers in percentage?
If you have a spyder 5 pro it will give you a chart and percentages of coverage for srgb, ntsc, and adobe rbg
Here is my srgb result
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Should I use ProPhoto RGB?
Zeus's answer is great and comprehensive. I am just going to add some additional thoughts for some of the OPs specific questions. Some below are opinionated based on PRACTICAL REALITY and experience.
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color spaces and monitors
Adobe RGB image in a monitor that only displays sRGB?
I'm not sure if here lies a misconception.
A monitor does not only displays sRGB or Adobe 1998, they display a percentage of them. If a monitor ...
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Will there be (stronger) colour banding on 8bit wide gamut display when working in sRGB?
This is a valid concern.
My understanding of your question is that it's a monitoring problem rather than editing problem. That is, when you are editing an sRGB photo, you specify that your current ...
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Do Google Photos maintain any other color spaces except sRGB
Google Photos does not "maintain" or "convert" color spaces. The color space is a property of the image, usually noted in the Exif metadata. Since Google Photos preserves ...
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The meaning of Y in sRGB color space
The table shows the CIE 1931 xyY color space equivalents for the 3 primary colors of sRGB and for white (sRGB 1 1 1).
So all the table says is:
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Are these versions of sRGB v2 the same?
You list different things. The 2001 reference is an ICC Specification that defines how V2 profiles are structured. The specification applies to profiles such as sRGB as well as others such as ProPhoto ...
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Are colour profiles ever stored in RAW files?
In Brief:
ONE) The "leader" was incorrect, in fact he's got it backwards in a way. A RAW file is RAW image data and a colorspace is NOT RAW it's debayered. A chosen colospace has no effect on the RAW ...
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P3 Color Pallet vs sRGB
Before you worry about whether you should export as P3, does your camera even export in P3? Most cameras today still only export in either sRGB or Adobe RGB.
However, if you're using an iPhone for ...
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Can I simplify my workflow by shooting in Adobe RAW?
One thing I don't fully understand is why, when I take a photo with a Nikon and import it in Lightroom, the colors immediately appear desaturated and visibly different than what it looked like in the ...
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Why isn't the xvYCC color space seeing uptake for still photography?
That is precisely what was used in Kodak Photo CD (the colorspace is called PhotoYCC), moreover it is a predecessor of xvYCC_601. The problem why it was not done is because it is ONLY limited range (...
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How can I correct oversaturated colors after sRGB calibration of AdobeRGB monitor?
If I stick to Case A: Could I be sure that everyone (with calibrated monitor) will see my photos as me in smart "viewers": ACDSee Pro, LightRoom?
Not if the other calibrated monitors are only 96%, or ...
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Standard color space more vivid than Adobe RGB in Dell DELL UP2516D?
It's hard to say what the 'Standard' setting is supposed to do on each particular monitor. From my experience with similar monitors, where there are 'actually standard' presets like sRGB or AdobeRGB ...
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Is there a reason not to remove colour profiles from images on the web?
If the original ICC profile is sRGB or equivalent, there is usually no harm from removing it.
sRGB is sometimes added to images that were not originally color managed. (The profile shouldn't be ...
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For printer ICC color profiles, what is the reference? Is it Adobe RGB/sRGB or something else?
This isn't really an answer, but too much for a comment. I feel it needs to be established how the OP's workflow is set up
Can we establish some basics.
You don't "calibrate to sRGB or Adobe 98&...
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Oversaturated colors in Chrome (V43) on wide gamut monitor
Here you can also test, which ICC version your browser supports: http://cameratico.com/tools/web-browser-color-management-test/
On Mac only Safari supports v2 and v4. Also it's rendering CSS values ...
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Oversaturated colors in Chrome (V43) on wide gamut monitor
There seems to be a good analysis of the issue here: http://www.color-management-guide.com/web-browser-color-management.html
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Is calibrating a monitor for sRGB and CMYK different?
RGB and CMYK are very different color models. For instance, RGB is additive: you basically start with black and add colors. You combine all colors to make white. But CMYK is subtractive: you start ...
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What should I do with negative values when computing sRGB colors from spectra?
You are not clipping the intermediate RGB values.
From the sRGB Wikipedia article you linked to,
The intermediate parameters R, G and B for in-gamut colors are defined to be in the range [0,1], .....
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lightroom photo export with sRGB profile
I think the main error is that your Working Space is set to your monitor profile.
The monitor profile is actually adapted "live" as it's drawn to screen & should not be part of your workflow.
You ...
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Inconsistent image viewing experience
Why is that?
Colour management fully depends on the software as of January 2017. There is no way of enforcing it no matter how recent the OS is.
Related question about Edge on MS site - with no ...
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