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Working in an advanced color space

Working in an advanced color space - Photoshop Tutorial

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Working in an advanced color space

I'd like to look at one more image here because I think it's a good example of some color space theory. It's also a good example of something I think may help you understand a little bit more about what's going on in Camera Raw, as regards color and color spaces. I have this image here, and take a look at the Histogram as it should be your first impulse when you open an image, and you can see that I've got some highlight clipping in the red channel. I've over-exposed some of the reds a little bit in the brightest highlights, I also have some Shadow clipping in the blue channel. Now if you look down here you'll see that the image is currently being mapped into sRGB. I did not have my camera set properly so this is come in as an sRGB image. So I'm just going to change that. Now I want you to keep an eye on the Histogram here as I make the change from sRGB to Adobe RGB. You notice this, this Highlights Spike went lower. There's not as much red clipping when I'm in Adobe RGB as there is…

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