sRGB: The Internet Color Space

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Until now, we have avoided using the sRGB working space profile because it has a limited color gamut and is less suitable for a print-based workflow than other color spaces. However, the sRGB color space, created by HP and Microsoft to be representative of the average PC display, is appropriate for display-based media. When you realize that most people's displays are not calibrated, or even set to a white point other than the manufacturer's default, it's easy to understand why sRGB is a smaller color space than those used in creative applications.

To illustrate the size and shape of the sRGB gamut, we could perform an exercise using the Color Think utility (which we used in Chapter 1) that compares sRGB to other color spaces. But since you already learned how to use Color Think to perform these kinds of comparisons, let's jump ahead to the actual comparison (Figures 10.1 and 10.2).

Figure 10.1.


Figure 10.2.


The sRGB gamut in Figure 10.1 is much smaller, meaning it has less color contained in its color space, than the Adobe RGB gamut in Figure 10.2.

Because sRGB is a small working space, it's best to use a larger space, such as Adobe RGB (1998) to edit your images. However, when you want to see how those images will look when they're on a Web page, you can use the sRGB profile to soft proof your color content in Adobe Photoshop.

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    Microsoft Windows XP Color Management
    Microsoft Windows XP Color Management
    ISBN: 0321334272
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 103

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