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Mar 29, 2023

What color space do you use for your screens to produce and to display astrophoto images ?

I use sRGB - is this ok ?

Any other recommendations to reproduce images with colors seen just by everyone?

Thanks !

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Rick Veregin

Mar 30, 2023

In general, sRGB is the standard and will display properly anywhere on the web. Adobe RGB is another option with wider gamut, but may end up with odd results. You can find many articles if you search google on the topic, here is one typical example. I don't know about Astrobin specifically, but I assume this general advice is correct for Astrobin. I do use sRGB for all my images, @Rick Veregin , and when I save the final jpg or tiff, I always make sure I save the sRGB profile with the image.

Thus, sRGB is safe, other profiles are better if you really know what you are doing and have total control of the process to the final product.
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Thomas Ammann

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Mar 30, 2023

Thanks - I have set all my monitors to sRGB which improves the work internally.

For the JPG export from LR and PS, I also defined sRGB.

The only thing I don't control is the calibration of the screen of those who watch my images ;-)

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Rick Veregin

Mar 30, 2023

Lol. Yes. I find phones are the worst, they typically add lots of saturation and contrast to everything, trying to pretty up peoples drab photos. But horribly overdone when the image was perfect fine as it was…