Flipping album colour space issues

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I've always shot sRGB as generally that's the colour space of choice for the likes of Loxley etc.

Anyway, I just started building an album last night using another favourite supplier - GF Smith. Having imported the 150 photos into the album design software I noticed in one of their brochures that the preferred colour space for them is Adobe RGB! :(

Now, should I go back and change the colour profile in CS4 and if so what's the QUICKEST/EASIEST way to do it? Time is in short supply so any tips advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Ryan
 
Can you not create an action to change colour space then do a batch droplet to do it for you?
 
tiler65 said:
Can you not create an action to change colour space then do a batch droplet to do it for you?
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Very true, droplets are a saviour in times like this.

This is where management programs like Lightroom really shine though. Forgive me sticking my oar in but I remember you saying that you use Lightroom Ryan? Forgive me if I'm incorrect but just incase my memory isn't playing tricks on me:

All my jobs/commissions/personal projects, each have their own Lightroom catalogue. Lightroom is designed to work hand in hand and back to back with photoshop.

If I need to edit using a more elaborate suite like CS4, then a simple right click on the file within the Lightroom catalogue and the select 'edit in...' choosing CS4 to edit, very similar to Bridge but with much more options.

When the PSD is saved it automatically appears in the Lightroom catalogue, keeping all PSD's and raw files in the same place, allowing collections to be made for organizing purposes for example.

All exports can be performed individually or by the batch load with whatever colour spaces I need.

This method also terminates the need to store JPEG, after I export as JPEG for net use, submissions to client or printing lab etc, they can be deleted.

The only files you ever need are raws and PSD's (or TIFF if you prefer to edit in TIFF) ;)

So in your case, it would be re-opening your Lightroom catalogue and then selecting all the files you need to upload to Loxley and then in the export menu's selecting Adobe RGB in the drop down colour space box before hitting export.

Hope it helps, if not- apologies ;)

T.
 
Don't think there is any point Ryan. If they have sRGB profiles, then I would imagine the lab would convert them to Adobe RGB as they were printed.

You are not going to get any more colours out of them now they are in a theoretically lesser colour space.

I'd have a chat and maybe run a sample first.

Graham
 
Tomas Whitehouse said:
Very true, droplets are a saviour in times like this.

This is where management programs like Lightroom really shine though. Forgive me sticking my oar in but I remember you saying that you use Lightroom Ryan? Forgive me if I'm incorrect but just incase my memory isn't playing tricks on me:

All my jobs/commissions/personal projects, each have their own Lightroom catalogue. Lightroom is designed to work hand in hand and back to back with photoshop.

If I need to edit using a more elaborate suite like CS4, then a simple right click on the file within the Lightroom catalogue and the select 'edit in...' choosing CS4 to edit, very similar to Bridge but with much more options.

When the PSD is saved it automatically appears in the Lightroom catalogue, keeping all PSD's and raw files in the same place, allowing collections to be made for organizing purposes for example.

All exports can be performed individually or by the batch load with whatever colour spaces I need.

This method also terminates the need to store JPEG, after I export as JPEG for net use, submissions to client or printing lab etc, they can be deleted.

The only files you ever need are raws and PSD's (or TIFF if you prefer to edit in TIFF) ;)

So in your case, it would be re-opening your Lightroom catalogue and then selecting all the files you need to upload to Loxley and then in the export menu's selecting Adobe RGB in the drop down colour space box before hitting export.

Hope it helps, if not- apologies ;)

T.
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I have LR2 Tomas but no, I don;t use it much sice getting CS4 - I seem to find bridge and Photoshop to be my current work flow. In this case all the images in question have been saved as JPEGS and I haven't got a PSD or TIFF file to reference :(
 
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