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<blockquote data-quote="mac57" data-source="post: 398047" data-attributes="member: 17052"><p>winston, one thing you should note is that Macs are much more facile with color space handling than PCs are, unless Microsoft has now added it to Vista. Windows, and most Windows-based graphics programs, assume images are in sRGB, and render them that way. Of course most serious photographers shoot in Adobe RGB, which means that their images, viewed without modification on a PC, look rather bland. Adobe RGB has a much wider color gamut than sRGB, meaning it can reproduce a wider range of colors. When you "squash" an Adobe RGB file by interpreting it as sRGB, you get a "flat" bland looking image.</p><p></p><p>Windows *does* know about color spaces and color management, but it seems almost an afterthought, not a core element of the system, and you need one of a handful of programs designed to make use of color management to be able to view Adobe RGB images in their intended full gamut. </p><p></p><p>It is the other way around with Macs. Macs know about color management almost intuitively. Even the (not so) humble Preview application understands color management and does the right thing with Adobe RGB files. I have never confirmed this, but I suspect that deep in the guts of Mac OS X, color space interpretation is natively supported, since almost every Mac image program behaves correctly. I have run into ONE Mac image app that doesn't do the right thing with Adobe RGB, but that app is the exception not the rule.</p><p></p><p>So, if you are serious about photography, color space management will be less of an issue for you if you are using a Mac than if you are using a PC. This is not a COMPELLING reason to get a Mac, since you CAN get PC programs that support different color spaces (Photoshop is one of them of course!), but it is almost a no brainer on a Mac; you rarely have to think about it, other than when you are publishing your work. At that point, you need to be sure your images are in sRGB so that you less enlightened (i.e. PC using) audience members can view them in more or less the intended colors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mac57, post: 398047, member: 17052"] winston, one thing you should note is that Macs are much more facile with color space handling than PCs are, unless Microsoft has now added it to Vista. Windows, and most Windows-based graphics programs, assume images are in sRGB, and render them that way. Of course most serious photographers shoot in Adobe RGB, which means that their images, viewed without modification on a PC, look rather bland. Adobe RGB has a much wider color gamut than sRGB, meaning it can reproduce a wider range of colors. When you "squash" an Adobe RGB file by interpreting it as sRGB, you get a "flat" bland looking image. Windows *does* know about color spaces and color management, but it seems almost an afterthought, not a core element of the system, and you need one of a handful of programs designed to make use of color management to be able to view Adobe RGB images in their intended full gamut. It is the other way around with Macs. Macs know about color management almost intuitively. Even the (not so) humble Preview application understands color management and does the right thing with Adobe RGB files. I have never confirmed this, but I suspect that deep in the guts of Mac OS X, color space interpretation is natively supported, since almost every Mac image program behaves correctly. I have run into ONE Mac image app that doesn't do the right thing with Adobe RGB, but that app is the exception not the rule. So, if you are serious about photography, color space management will be less of an issue for you if you are using a Mac than if you are using a PC. This is not a COMPELLING reason to get a Mac, since you CAN get PC programs that support different color spaces (Photoshop is one of them of course!), but it is almost a no brainer on a Mac; you rarely have to think about it, other than when you are publishing your work. At that point, you need to be sure your images are in sRGB so that you less enlightened (i.e. PC using) audience members can view them in more or less the intended colors. [/QUOTE]
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