Gordon Large said:
Maybe you can explain to me the difference between "assign profile" and "convert to". If you simply assign an sRGB profile to an Adobe RGB file, won't the typical dumb (not color-managed) monitor still show the Adobe RGB file?
Cheers,
Gordon
Gordon,
The RGB numbers in a given file represent the colors in a color space. The difference betwen
assign and
convert to is simply that
assign interprets the existing RGB numbers in the specified color space (without changing the RGB numbers in the file), whereas
convert to works to give the same visual rendition of colors using a different color space, and therefore modifying the RGB numbers in the file itself.
In other words, if you have a file that you know
should be in Adobe RGB, but does not have a tag (profile) which is saying that the file has been encoded in the Adobe RGB space, you can simply
assign the Adobe RGB profile to it: it won't modify the actual data, just instruct every color-managed application to interpret the color properly. For those applications that are not color-management aware (eg Internet Explorer), you want to convert to sRGB (in PS), because that is the assumed default.
I think in your case, you want to first
assign Adobe RGB and
then convert to sRGB!! :wink:
Hope this helps!