No Embedded Colour Space?

[pehch4e]

Not sure if anyone faces this little problem. Whenever I shoot in Adobe colour space on my E-500, the downloaded photo just do not have the any embedded color space when I open in PS7, which the metafile confirms so. However I do not face this problem shooting in sRGB and this puzzles me a lot on what is wrong, with camera or my processing. As such shooting in Adobe gives me a much poorer color information, what's the problem! Welcome any comments or help.


Chee Ee
E-500

[hammer_400]

is ur PS7 set to sRGB or aRGB?

[NMSS_2]

when shooting in aRGB, u will need to use sRGB profile in PS to convert it. PS will then try to retain the colours found when you are shooting aRGB. aRGB has a wider gamut. you will need sRGB profile when posting to web, printing in digilab or editing in any non-profilable software. editing straight from aRGB in non-profilable software will screw the colours big time.

[tomcat]

Are you using Paint Shop Pro 7 or Photoshop 7 ?

[pehch4e]

I set my PS7 to aRGB. Now, when I open the picture, the message is that the file has no embedded color space, so assuming this is expected, should I continue to assign aRGB or convert it into sRGB? Since most printing in lab, viewing in other non-profilable software plus posting in web will require sRGB profile in order to represent the color properly, when would working in aRGB be meaningful, just prior to finalizing the photo and convert to sRGB? I would very much like to know how should I make use of the richer gamut of aRGB correctly.

[NMSS_2]

Assign profile when finalising the image in Photoshop.

alternatively if you hate PP, you can always batch profile all pics in a folder.

an easier way to check whether you have wider gamut as oppose to sRGB is to shoot in both jpeg and compare the difference. aRGB will make primary colours (RGB) richer in tones.