[filmscanners] RE: Color spaces for different purposes

["michael shaffer" <michael@shaffer.net>]

Tomek writes ...

> What color spaces is best to choose for the following purposes:
> - printed material, for example a magazine or a photographic book
> - stock photography (image bank)
> - inkjet
> I want to scan my images in the most appropriate color space for
> the purpose but don't want to use some exotic ones.
> I'd prefer to stick to widely used color spaces (but which ones?)
> ...

  I'd submit "AdobeRGB" as probably the most respected and universally
appropriate color space ... especially for distribution.  Do note however,
its gamut is too large for presentation at a wwwsite.  For that, you'll need
to convert your www presentations to "sRGB".

cheerios ... shAf  :o)
Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland
www.micro-investigations.com

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe by mail to listserver@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe 
filmscanners'
or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or 
body