What conversions are taking place when I open an image from my camera in Photoshop and subsequently print it?
A. The answer will vary according to the colour management settings you have chosen. In a typical set-up, Photoshop will first convert the image into the current RGB Working Space, which is a calibrated RGB space such as sRGB or Adobe RGB (1998). The source profile in this scenario will be embedded in the image file by the camera. (If your camera does not embed a source profile, you should get a message asking you to specify a source profile from the list available.) On printing, the image is converted from the Working Space to the colour space of the printer, using the printer profile. Both conversion have the Profile Connection Space as an intermediate space. In the PCS colour is specified in terms of its appearance rather than in a device-dependent space such as CMYK. When you view the image on a display, it is being converted to the display colour space, using the display profile which has been chosen for the system. Q. Are conversions between sRGB and other colour spaces carried o
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