Questions tagged [color-spaces]
A colour space is a specific organization of colours. In combination with physical device profiling, it allows for reproducible representations of colour, in both analogue and digital representations. The colour spaces most commonly encountered in photography are Adobe RGB and sRGB.
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Analogue pixels instead of rgb pixels
My understanding of digital displays is that they create colored images through pixels which can display red, green, or blue at each site, and use additive color theory to combine those colors to ...
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When shooting raw stills, does the tone mode setting matter?
I'm going through some of the settings on a Nikon Z8, and one of the options when shooting raw is to switch the tone mode from SDR to HLG.
In principle, I understand what these two modes do: HLG ...
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Why do my photos look less punchy in Laptop than camera when both are set to sRGB color space? Why is there a change in photos at all?
I use canon m50 set to RAW to click pictures, they look good on the LCD of the camera but when imported to laptop (Predator Helios 300), it looks bland and less punchy. Even though the reality was ...
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How to calibrate my monitors and colorspaces to to best create a workflow or editing raw photos for uploading and viewing on the web
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I have bought 2 monitors-4K ADOBE RGB and 4K SRGB. What/how should I set up the monitors' calibrations and color spaces to best edit my raw photos for exporting to the web?
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I ...
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Why are these color look up tables (Hald CLUT) 1600 x 1600 pixels instead of 4096 x 4096 pixels?
I imagine that exhaustive color look up tables need to be 256 x 256 x 256 = 4096 x 4096 pixels.
Is that correct?
If so, how are these color look up tables (Hald CLUT) only 1600 x 1600 pixels?
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How to separate the RGB colour space to only N colours?
In a JPEG image, we may have thousands of distinct RGB values.
What is the process called of translating these numerous RGB values to just N distinct colour names/values?
(I'd like to know the name ...
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Would spectral responses of camera pixels be more "raw", more compact and superior to ICC/DCP camera color profiles? If not, why not?
Background: I'm trying to understand the function of camera color profiles (for raw output) in terms of the hardware. I have found lots of web sites that explain the function of camera profiles from a ...
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Why is CMYK more efficient/beneficial than RGB for performing printing operation on white paper?
We know that CMYK is subtractive color model and RGB is additive color model.If we make 3D( R: x-axis, G: y-axis, B: z-axis) cube for RGB it starts with darkness (black) and we gradually add light; an ...
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Confused with my monitor Picture Modes
I've recently bought my first "Designer Monitor", Benq PD2500Q (yeah I know it's probably still shit for professionals, but for me it's the first 'better' monitor). I'm very impressed by it ...
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Image Color Scheme getting faded when opening with MSPaint
I have the following image (have put a screen-grab of the image as its size is more than 2 MB - the original can be downloaded from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rC2QQBzMhZ8AG5Lp5PyrpkOxwlyP9QaE/...
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Export photos from Lightroom to leverage HDR display on modern iPhones
If I take a photo with my iPhone 13 Pro Max camera and view it on the phone screen, bright lights and colors appear very strong and vivid like an HDR movie on an HDR TV. This is controlled by a ...
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Colour shift in photographs between applications? (profile included)
I have Asus ProArt PA329 monitor.
I made a full system reinstallation a few months ago, had not really worked photos for a while due to lockdown and other things etc. More recently, I re-installed the ...
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sRGB picture shows very differently on photo editor vs. web (driving me crazy!)
The photo looks nice Affinity Photo, GIMP and Photoshop in my MacBook. I preview the photo also with Mac Preview, and it shows exactly the same.
But when seeing the picture in the browser, it shows ...
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Why color-wheel websites (Adobe...) claim these colors are complementary
I just learn about the different color harmony styles models, and I was playing with Adobe color wheel website using the complementary style, but I'm realizing that the proposed colors are not really ...
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Where can I see ProPhoto RGB photos
Where can I see ProPhoto RGB photos?
Do I need a special monitor?
Can I print it? If I print it how would it look (will it look like in the special monitor)?
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