Herman Teeuwen
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The Color Space Conundrum or "Preserving fine tones in hues you can't even see!"
Correct, the final output is compressed or clipped and cant truly represent the wide gamut, but
the advantage of ProPhoto (and other wide color spaces) isn't about retaining all those out-of-gamut colors per se, it's about maintaining the distinctions between them, so that you can map them into printable space as gradations rather than blobs.
Wide color spaces isn't the only option you have to prevent clipping of printable camera colors, here's a text I wrote on PhotoGamut RGB: http://www.outbackphoto.com/tforum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=1658
John_Nevill said:On the colouspace debate, I just view them as boundaries on gamnut. Perhaps i'm oversimplifing it, but monitors and printers wont actually show some of these wide gamuts, so aren't we working perceptionally with colours that are visually being forced into the limited rendering intents of such output devices?
I equally find it difficult to visualise an image which someone puts on the web (in sRGB) and says its a result of a wider colourspace. The wider colouspace may have got you there, but the final output is surely compressed and cant truly represent the wide gamut.
Correct, the final output is compressed or clipped and cant truly represent the wide gamut, but
the advantage of ProPhoto (and other wide color spaces) isn't about retaining all those out-of-gamut colors per se, it's about maintaining the distinctions between them, so that you can map them into printable space as gradations rather than blobs.
Wide color spaces isn't the only option you have to prevent clipping of printable camera colors, here's a text I wrote on PhotoGamut RGB: http://www.outbackphoto.com/tforum/viewtopic.php?TopicID=1658
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