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Old 31-10-2009, 12:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Omaroo View Post
Troy - if you're preparing your material for commercial print (magazine, book, etc) then you'll also want to think in CMYK space. Separation and going to print from RGB to CMYK is a bit of a minefield at times.

Image 1 below shows you the relative gamuts and what to expect in print (CMKY) if you keep thinking in RBG and then want to print something commercially.

Image 2: RGB (red, green & blue - additive colour)

Image 3) CMY[K] (cyan, magenta, yellow - subtractive colour)

http://www.printernational.org/rgb-versus-cmyk.php
Thanks for pointing that out. Might do a bit of digging about that too.

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Originally Posted by Octane View Post
I process in ProPhoto RGB and convert to either Adobe RGB or sRGB as required.
So your camera is set to capture in aRGB? And when you convert back from ProPhotoRGB to the others, don't you get clipped colours because you're going from a much wider gamut to narrower ones?
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