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  • Ian Wilson
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    Rick

    Welcome to the forum.

    In Capture One go to the Output tab (marked with a gear wheel). There you will see a section of "Process Recipes". If there is not already one that is to your liking, click the + to create a new one, call it what you like (such as "TIFF 16 bit full size" or whatever). Then change the format to TIFF, 16 bit, sRGB profile, 100% size, etc. Then whenever you want to output a TIFF just make sure you have that process recipe selected and hit the gear wheel button, or Cmd-D, or the Process button on that tab.

    There is also an Export option in the menus, but I generally find it better to use the Process tab.

    Ian
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  • Rick Pascale
    Thanks so much Ian! This has helped me tremendously! 😄
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  • Rick Pascale
    As a quick follow up,

    I upload my images to the web and print approximately 20% of them in house. Would a color space workflow of shooting in AdobeRGB, uploading to Capture One, RAW processing in AdobeRGB, exporting to Photoshop CC in AdobeRGB and using that file for print. Then for web uploads, converting the AdobeRGB images to sRGB seem to be a good approach?

    Thanks again for the help!

    best,

    Rick
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  • Grant Kernan
    Yes this would be a better approach than limiting your files to the sRGB colour space. I do most of my printing in house and I find Adobe RGB1998 to be superior to sRGB. sRGB is better for web and some print houses are set up to print from sRGB. Your older files which began life in sRGB should not be converted to Adobe RGB.
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  • John Doe
    Color spaces don't apply to RAW files. You don't shoot in sRGB or AdobeRGB when shooting RAW : what you get are the raw data from the sensor.
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  • Rick Pascale
    [quote="John Doe" wrote:
    Color spaces don't apply to RAW files. You don't shoot in sRGB or AdobeRGB when shooting RAW : what you get are the raw data from the sensor.


    Thank you for clarifying for me.

    Exporting in AdobeRGB to Photoshop CC as a TIFF, Editing the TIFF in PSCC and then saving for print. Convert to sRGB for web use.

    Does this sound like a good approach?

    Thank you for the help,

    Rick
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  • Robert Farhi
    [quote="greyhoundrick" wrote:
    [quote="John Doe" wrote:
    Color spaces don't apply to RAW files. You don't shoot in sRGB or AdobeRGB when shooting RAW : what you get are the raw data from the sensor.


    Thank you for clarifying for me.

    Exporting in AdobeRGB to Photoshop CC as a TIFF, Editing the TIFF in PSCC and then saving for print. Convert to sRGB for web use.

    Does this sound like a good approach?

    Thank you for the help,

    Rick


    John is obviously right. I proceed as follows : shooting in RAW, working in the largest possible color space (Prophoto is a good choice for beginners, as you can find it on the web very easily. To be selected in the Process recipe(s) of the output tool tab) and then process your file depending upon what you want to do with your image - printer profile for printing, sRGB jpeg for the web, etc....
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  • Grant Kernan
    I did not actually talk about RAW files.
    When I talked about the files that began their life in sRGB I was referring to the files that were being edited in PS - most likely aTif file. If the sRGB colour space has been embedded into the files it is not wise to convert back to a larger colour space.

    On another note I can choose the sRGB or the Adobe RGB colour space in my D800 / D810. This is only applied to a jpg if one is shooting jpgs. It is not applied to a Raw file.

    CO allows one to embed the Generic ICC profiles or to choose another to [ convert ] to. I usually embed my own custom ICC profile as I can edit the profile and apply it at a later date in another 3rd party software.
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  • peter Frings
    Hi Grant,

    [quote="Grant Kernan" wrote:
    If the sRGB colour space has been embedded into the files it is not wise to convert back to a larger colour space.


    That is an interesting statement. I would've thought that there would be no harm in converting an image into a larger color space (assuming that the larger color space completely encloses the smaller one and that there are no 'bits sticking out') if you need to edit that image; I would've thought that having the larger color space to work in would avoid clipping, banding, etc.

    What would be the disadvantage of converting it? (of course, if you don't need to edit the image, converting it makes no sense, I do understand that).

    Cheers,
    Peter.
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  • Grant Kernan
    All I know is it is better to leave the image in the larger colour space until the time that you need to convert to sRGB...
    but save a copy in the larger colour space for future use.

    When it comes down to Fine Art Repro and colour matching originals to high end copies, if I am given a file saved in sRGB then I get a better colour match by not converting back into a larger colour space. So I leave it alone and print from that saved colour space.

    From my understanding the sRGB space is smaller however there are small parts of it that extend outside the Adobe RGB space. When one converts back and forth it is possible to loose bits of that colour. If one does this too often then more data can be lost.
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  • Robert Farhi
    Hi Grant,
    I think you are right from the beginning to the end !!
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