if you can stand another color question

[jann1033]

i have my elements set up for sRgb since that is what zenfolio sends to mpix for printing but the icc profile in my save as box comes up as prophoto rgb..anyone knows if this is the same or how it compares? i'd just like to have the whole color deal set up the same from start to finish. if lightroom the prophoto or srgb? and i think i am right but that means any type file jpg, tiff will be save in srgb, right?
Thanks

 

[MarkBarbieri]

ProPhoto RGB is a much larger color space than sRGB. In fact, they are sort of at opposite extremes. ProPhoto RGB includes a broader range of colors than sRGB, but sRGB covers its range with smaller differences between colors.

Here's a chart from A Color Managed RAW Workflow on Adobe's site.

Lightroom uses ProPhoto RGB internally (see About color management in Lightroom). It renders previews in AdobeRGB. It can output in many color spaces, including sRGB.

 

[boBQuincy]

ProPhoto RGB is the largest color space we can use. Since it can use colors which can neither be printed nor seen it needs to be handled carefully.
Sending a ProPhoto RGB to a printer will probably result in some "interesting" colors.

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml

 

[MarkBarbieri]

Since it can use colors which can neither be printed nor seen

That reminds me of a really confusing sight when I was a child. I was walking through the store when I noticed a package claiming that it contained an "invisible hairnet, light brown." I was baffled as to how something could be both invisible and still have a color. Now I finally understand; it must have been using a light brown color in ProPhoto RGB that can't been printed or seen.

 

[jann1033]

what got me wondering about all this was hub saw his website on someone else's computer and the colors were washed out(guessing that was the calibration on their moniter) but that got me wondering..i love the coloration i get from light room, probably due to it using larger color scale of prophoto(some of my photos in photoshop elements look really washed out, those are adobe rgb) but am wondering since mpix prints in srgb, what i would be best to postprocess my photos in...i would like the photos to come out as close to the coloration i put on them as possible, especially some of the ones i do for the effect of the color ( ie like cross processing, not natural coloration)...so any suggestions along that line? since they are going to print in srgb, my line of ( probably faulty) reasoning was do the whole thing in srgb which that article seems to say is a bad idea. so wondering how to keep the prophoto from making freaky photos by a weird coloration that i don't see before hand .( i mean freakier than my purposly freaky photos) maybe that might actually be more important with normal coloration( ie who wants to be a greenish bride ) rather than altered color...but i'd still like the colors to stay what i want them to be since sometimes i purposely have a range of colors i want.
btw good article Bob and glad your brain remembers that site, i love every article you mention from there but never think to go there without a helpful push in that direction

invisible brown=oxymoronic?
mark i just really read your carbon emmissions line...i think you are pretty capable of reaching your goal

 

[boBQuincy]

That reminds me of a really confusing sight when I was a child. I was walking through the store when I noticed a package claiming that it contained an "invisible hairnet, light brown."

It's like when I was installing an "invisible fence" and misplaced a piece. How am I ever going to find it?