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Color profiles

Mike900
Hi

Quick question,should I use my newly created calibrated monitor profile (which I have selected globally in system preferences > monitor >color) alsoelected inside preferences in capture one or should I work with the standard which is selected (srgb for example)?

Thanks in advance!
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  • Christian Gruner
    Never use your monitor profile for anything else than the monitor.

    When you have profiled a monitor, there shouldn't be anything to do in CO. This is all handled by OSX.
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  • BobRockefeller
    [quote="Mike900" wrote:
    Quick question,should I use my newly created calibrated monitor profile (which I have selected globally in system preferences > monitor >color) alsoelected inside preferences in capture one or should I work with the standard which is selected (srgb for example)?


    "Common wisdom" is to set View -> Proof Profile to a large gamut profile, such as ProPhoto, for routine work. To proof for output, switch to the profile for your output, perhaps a paper/ink profile for your printer.
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  • Christian Gruner
    [quote="BobRockefeller" wrote:
    [quote="Mike900" wrote:
    Quick question,should I use my newly created calibrated monitor profile (which I have selected globally in system preferences > monitor >color) alsoelected inside preferences in capture one or should I work with the standard which is selected (srgb for example)?


    "Common wisdom" is to set View -> Proof Profile to a large gamut profile, such as ProPhoto, for routine work. To proof for output, switch to the profile for your output, perhaps a paper/ink profile for your printer.


    I'd rather recommend to set it to "Selected recipe", which is also the default.
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  • BobRockefeller
    [quote="Christian Gruner" wrote:
    [quote="BobRockefeller" wrote:
    [quote="Mike900" wrote:
    Quick question,should I use my newly created calibrated monitor profile (which I have selected globally in system preferences > monitor >color) alsoelected inside preferences in capture one or should I work with the standard which is selected (srgb for example)?


    "Common wisdom" is to set View -> Proof Profile to a large gamut profile, such as ProPhoto, for routine work. To proof for output, switch to the profile for your output, perhaps a paper/ink profile for your printer.


    I'd rather recommend to set it to "Selected recipe", which is also the default.


    That works, too. Just make sure you've selected a recipe that uses a large gamut profile.
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  • John Doe
    [quote="BobRockefeller" wrote:

    That works, too. Just make sure you've selected a recipe that uses a large gamut profile.

    Or not. I guess it all depends on what you plan to do with the output files. As far as I'm concerned, most of the time my selected recipe is JPEG 1280px long edge sRGB. 😊
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  • BobRockefeller
    [quote="John Doe" wrote:
    [quote="BobRockefeller" wrote:

    That works, too. Just make sure you've selected a recipe that uses a large gamut profile.

    Or not. I guess it all depends on what you plan to do with the output files. As far as I'm concerned, most of the time my selected recipe is JPEG 1280px long edge sRGB. 😊


    That may be, but you probably don't want to proof all images in an sRGB space. Some you might want to see "all there is," others for a particular printer/ink/paper combination, and so on.

    That's why I pick the profile I want from View -> Proof Profile rather than depending on having the right output recipe active. Just me.
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  • Mike900
    Awesome, thanks
    Guess I should have figured it myself..

    About the view > profile etc.. I have my camera set to capture adobe rgb now. If I have default set to use srgb in CO-settings, import images, start working with them and then in the middle of that switch back to view in adobe rgb, have I already wiped the extra color info or can I just switch back and forth as long as I dont export?
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  • John Doe
    [quote="Mike900" wrote:
    Awesome, thanks
    Guess I should have figured it myself..

    About the view > profile etc.. I have my camera set to capture adobe rgb now. If I have default set to use srgb in CO-settings, import images, start working with them and then in the middle of that switch back to view in adobe rgb, have I already wiped the extra color info or can I just switch back and forth as long as I dont export?

    If you shoot RAW then the sRGB/AdobeRGB setting of your camera is irrelevant : CO is working with the full data from the sensor.

    CO is non destructive : you can switch from profile to profile without damaging anything. It'll only affect the output JPEG or Tiff files.
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