Aperture Color-Space and Onscreen Proofing
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
This is a tip and/or reminder for anyone out there using Aperture.
Aperture has a feature called “Onscreen Proofing” that allows you to set the color-space (proofing profile) you’re doing your adjustments in; sRGB, Adobe RGB and any paper profiles you have installed.
Because I sometimes print direct from Aperture on Canon Fine Art Photo Rag paper, I have it chosen much of the time when I’m working on my own images that I’ll print. However, recently I photographed some paintings for a local gallery and the images, while exposed correctly were consistently too dark on export. Why? Because I’d made my adjustments with my paper’s profile chosen, not the more typical sRGB for output to the web or a more generic printing scenario.
Onscreen proofing is a wonderful feature, just remember to change it as needed for the desired output. When in doubt, leave it set to sRGB.
