One of the aspects of photography that we tend to avoid or postpone without ceasing is the up-to-date color space. When you hear acronyms like sRVB, Adobe RVB, or CMJN? Looks like a non-knowing-what goes through the body that hums a na-na-na and you go to something else butterfly. Yes, you keep taking pictures as usual and nothing happens, right?I’m sure you thought this shouldn’t be that important in relation to the effort that needs to be made to learn more about it. Well, it’s time to catch up. For two reasons:
My goal is that when you finish reading this will be very clear, otherwise you will always have the comments to solve the small doubts Do not cut yourself!And now about?
- I could talk about the electromagnetic spectrum or the spectrum of visible light.
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- But I’d continue to publish your update on that.
- You probably wouldn’t read an longer.
- Would you? I’d do the same.
- I’m pretty easy.
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- We’d better simplify it.
- Even if someone pulls my ear.
- But it’s not a physics class.
- What I want you to understand?.
Color space is the range of colors your computer can represent, it is a standard list of encoded colors. When your camera captures an image on the map, what it records is data that your computer program needs to “translate” or decode later, and it does so in the color gamut it has, which is much more limited than the color gamut that exists in reality.
To see it more clearly, our eyes show us the colors as a mixture of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple and we see a combination of these seven, while the screens (camera, television, monitors, etc. ) , represent it only as a mixture of green, red, and blue. On the other hand, printers do so as a combination of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Do you now understand why sometimes an image of reality changes so much in your camera?screen and from there on paper? Here’s the trap?So what are we doing to place an “order” here? Well, here’s the second part?
If in the end each teacher has their libretto and everyone finds their best way of working, it is worth knowing at first some basic concepts and some forms of generic use, once you know it and understand how to work, you can decide how to proceed with your images (that is why they are yours?).
This is the most common color space on monitors, it is the one used by default by most cameras to view your images, and it is also the most recommended to use when photos are not printed. The idea is to show this photo on any type of screen, use this color space without hesitation.
This is the most recommended option for
Let’s say it’s the most used and the most used on the web.
Its color gamut is wider than sRGB and is the one used as standard in the photographic industry, let’s say it is the one used professionally. Most mid-range cameras can capture this range of colors, high-end monitors can represent all colors in this space, and high-end printers can also replicate it. Yes, you read well, high-end, i. e. professionally For the terrestrial user, it comes down to sRGB;), remember that this is the one used by most devices.
This is the color space commonly used in the printing process of newspapers and magazines, and in almost all printers sold today. Produces the least number of colors in all color spaces.
This color space is likely to be less familiar. It’s the one that covers the widest range of colors and let’s say it’s for the most color perfectionists. Only high-end cameras are able to record more colors than are recorded with Adobe RVB. Suitable only for high quality printers. Similarly, if you want to work in this color space, you must make sure to work with programs that support it, because otherwise the colors will have a bad image.
To summarize a little and keep the key concepts, I leave here the most important points:
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