PSCS2: color profile conversion, major color loss

[prophotodx]

I shoot Camera Raw for 99.99% of my images. I also use Prophoto RGB color space since it is the largest color space available from within Adobe Camera Raw 3.0. I have notices recently that my files, when converted to SRGB or Adobe 1998 look VERY flat.

If I open the same file from ACR3.0 into Adobe 1998 or SRGB the colors are much richer and more vibrant. Photoshop, no matter what you do will degrade, clip, and remove pixels and color intensity, sharpness, etc. That is why I start with the largest possible container (ProPhoto RGB @ 16 bits) and work my way down to what I actually need to print from (SRGB, 8 bits) I just can't for the life of me figure out why this is happening and why my work looks so bad when Photoshop converts the RGB color profile.

Any suggestions or comments are welcome, Thank You!!

DBX
(Try it my way, it might work...)

 

[BobP99]

Hi just posted a similar question myself and then founs your thread - did you ever work this out? It's driving me nuts. Thanks,

 

[apepp]

...my understanding of camera raw is limited but russell brown has some useful info on camera raw files to be processed...

...my understanding is that ACR needs to do all the work before entering conversions in photoshop, i may be wrong though...

...here are a couple of links which may be of interest. i did notice this workflow is already set to 8 bits and adobe rgb 1998...

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CS2CameraRAWSM.mov

http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/CS2ExportingRAWImageSM.mov

all the best
andrew

 

[apepp]

...another interesting link from bruce fraser...

http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/21351-1.html

andrew

 

[jmgalvin]

What rgb profile is your monitor calibated to? It's very likely that you can have a profile mismatch.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4