Adobe RGB / SRGB

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I have a mac book, a PC, a canon ip4600 printer and a canon 20D camera.
Which setting should they all be set on?
Using Lightroom and elements for PP.
 
Not sure how effective monitor calibration is on a laptop - mine was hopeless. Calibrate the pc, use either the driver in Photoshop or the printer driver but not both and evaluate the result.
 
Right. Big subject this.

As a rule if you have to ask - stick to sRGB.

If you shoot in RAW. It doesn't matter what the camera is set to. What does matter is the setting you export the JPEG in as this determines the colourspace when shooting in RAW.

For JPEGs that you are displaying online export with sRGB. Most browsers will show Adobe RGB as looking very colourless and washed out.

For professional printing ask the printer what he prefers.

For your printer check it out and try which works best but again I would say stick to sRGB.
 
I used a spyder to do the pc. Would I have set that to either adobe or srgb? Sorry to sound vague but just wondering what most set to
 
Stick with sRGB. sRGB just means 'simple rgb' and was born out of a collaboration between Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. The whole idea of sRGB is that if we're all running our PCs in an sRGB environment, we should all see pretty much the same colour etc in our images, given the vagaries of our different settings and different monitor calibrations.

If you run your system in Adobe RGB and upload to the web in that colour space, we'll all see different colours to you and it wont be for the better,

There are advantages in using Adobe RGB for printing as it is a wider colour space, but the differences aren't that noticable, and you really need t oknow what you're doing if yiou do your own printing in Adobe RGB OR find a commercial printer who really knows how to get the best out of Adobe RGB - if you can find one. Most commercial printers are happy to accept work from you in sRGB.
 
Just to make it worse don't forget "ProPhoto RGB"
 
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