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Hi all, confused about what lightroom does with a custom colour profile and whether I'm following the best practice, would appreciate any help massively!
At the moment, I have a custom colour profile generated by X-rite colormunki display that i use to calibrate my monitor, which I do all the editing on, using Lightroom. Then when I am exporting the finished photos, I get lightroom to embed my custom profile. the exported JPEGs seem to work fine, the thumbnails would have wonky colours but when opened in windows image viewer thing they look fine, and they look fine when i upload facebook/flickr and view them in the web browser. I have checked them using a different laptop and the photos dont look "off" so I think they are working fine at the moment.
Now my question is whether this is the best way to approach colour management?
Or if I get lightroom to export using sRGB, will it then convert the photos into sRGB despite being edited using a custom colour profile? (lets call this case 2)
and am I right in thinking case 2 would mean the colours in the photo wont look "off" in 99.9% of the case when viewing the photos as pretty much the whole word runs on sRGB, but the catch is that some of the colours viewable in my custom profile wont be accurately represented in sRGB?
Thank you!
At the moment, I have a custom colour profile generated by X-rite colormunki display that i use to calibrate my monitor, which I do all the editing on, using Lightroom. Then when I am exporting the finished photos, I get lightroom to embed my custom profile. the exported JPEGs seem to work fine, the thumbnails would have wonky colours but when opened in windows image viewer thing they look fine, and they look fine when i upload facebook/flickr and view them in the web browser. I have checked them using a different laptop and the photos dont look "off" so I think they are working fine at the moment.
Now my question is whether this is the best way to approach colour management?
Or if I get lightroom to export using sRGB, will it then convert the photos into sRGB despite being edited using a custom colour profile? (lets call this case 2)
and am I right in thinking case 2 would mean the colours in the photo wont look "off" in 99.9% of the case when viewing the photos as pretty much the whole word runs on sRGB, but the catch is that some of the colours viewable in my custom profile wont be accurately represented in sRGB?
Thank you!