Soft proof lightroom 5
The color gamut of your Dell monitor is an 'envelope' of the possible colors that your monitor can produce. Your Dell is providing you with (at least) two color profiles (AdobeRGB & sRGB) These are not exactly the same thing as a Color space of the same name. The first thing for you to wrap your mind around is color management and color calibration. I apologise if this is not really a Lightroom question and I should post in a monitor forum instead, but any help would be much appreciated ! However, I would have thought that when I soft proof sRGB in Lightroom whilst my monitor outputs Adobe RGB, it should STILL show the effect of the more muted colours already since Lightroom should convert my image into sRGB, a subset of Adobe RGB, and show the appropriate loss of gamut and colour changes in the Lightroom soft proof. I suppose this means when I soft proof in sRGB, I need to switch my display to show sRGB colours. Of course, then the soft proof ( and everything else for that matter) shows more muted colours and is kind of what I expected when viewing the soft proof within the initial Adobe RGB monitor gamut setting. However, if I change my monitor to output in sRGB, my ENTIRE screen changes to a more muted appearance. In my Lightroom 5.3, with my monitor set to Adobe RGB, there is almost no difference between the master file and the sRGB soft proof. My problem is that this doesn't happen, so it must mean I've misunderstood something, either about colour management or Lightroom 5 settings. Please excuse me if I write in point form below, but I think this will help me lay out my understanding and people can then tell me where I'm going wrong !ġ) My basic understanding is that Adobe RGB is a bigger colour space than sRGBĢ) It is beneficial to work in the widest colour space possible, so to edit RAW files in Lightroom, which uses ProPhoto RGB, I can set my monitor to output in Adobe RGB.ģ) If I view a sRGB soft proof in Lightroom, it should show more muted colours in general since sRGB is only a subset of the Adobe RGB gamut which my monitor is set to output. I recently got a Dell U2413 which I can set to output in sRGB or Adobe RGB colour spaces.