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Color-space conversions

Color-space conversions - Photoshop Tutorial

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Color-space conversions

Since the digital devices we are working on all have these differing capabilities to reproducing color these limitations require that our playing field be marked out so that it contains the number and the tonalities of those colors that the device can display. Before you consider converting an image file from one color space to another you need to be very clear why you are doing it. Converting an image from one space to another will change the data in the file, and may cause from a minor to an enormous color shift or loss of color. I say may, because it depends on the colors present in your image, and what space you're converting them into. Most commonly you would be converting an edited image from Pro Photo RGB to either Adobe RGB or sRGB, and occasionally CMYK. To do this with full knowledge of what will happen to the image, you need to do a soft proofing that will show the effects of both the colorspace conversion and which rendering intent will be best suited to the image…

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