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Need help with color management in pure sRGB workflow
A recent question I posted in this Subreddit has led me to the topic of color management which has always been challenging for me. I would be grateful for some advice with my particular setup:
- The final images I export from Capture One are exclusively sRGB JPGs. I use them for viewing on screen, for websites and to send them to a printing service that only accepts sRGB files.
- My computer is a Macbook Pro with a Dell U2720Q monitor. The monitor has a factory-calibrated sRGB mode but cannot be user-calibrated. It is set to the sRGB mode. In the Mac system settings, the color profile is set to "Dell U2720Q".
I've been working with this setup for quite a while now and the prints I have ordered so far match the images on the screen very closely, so I guess my settings can't be all wrong. But still some important questions remain:
- Do I need to set the monitors color mode to sRGB? I would think that it should be possible to leave it in its native color space and have the Mac and C1 deal with color management, but this doesn't seem to be the case. Colors are much more saturated in the native color mode. Why is that?
- What do I choose as Proof Profile in C1? The default setting is "Selected Recipe" which in my case means sRGB because all my export recipes are sRGB. But I think choosing ProPhoto, Adobe RGB, or even "No Profile" (a.k.a. the C1 native color space) might be a better option, because the histogram is so easily clipped in sRGB which I find distracting.
- Why does the preview image in C1 always look the same, no matter what color space I select as Proof Profile? This makes sense to me as long as the monitor is in sRGB mode, because then it probably won't display any colors outside that color space. But I would think that if I set it to its native color space I should be able to see some differences between different Proof Profiles.
u/Molotok101 — 6 days ago
