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Last updated 11/30/2015
A Profiles describe the color spaces of the camera and the image. B Using the profiles, the color management system identifies the image's actual
colors. C
The monitor's profile tells the color management system how to translate the image's colors to the monitor's color space. D Using the
printer profile, the color management system translates the image's colors to the printer's color space, so the colors appear correctly in print.
Lightroom simplifies color management by displaying colors using device-independent color spaces. This means that
all you need to do before working in Lightroom is to
Calibrate your monitor. Then, when you’re in Lightroom, choose
color settings or color profiles when you’re ready to output your photos.
How Lightroom manages color
Lightroom primarily uses the Adobe RGB color space to display colors. The Adobe RGB gamut includes most of the
colors that digital cameras can capture as well as some printable colors (cyans and blues, in particular) that can’t be
defined using the smaller, web-friendly sRGB color space.
Lightroom uses Adobe RGB:
• for previews in the Library, Map, Book, Slideshow, Print, and Web modules
• when printing in Draft mode
• in exported PDF slideshows and uploaded web galleries
• when you send a book to Blurb.com (If you export books as PDF or JPEG from the Book module, however, you can
choose sRGB or a different color profile.)
• for photos uploaded to Facebook and other photo-sharing sites using the Publish Services panel
In the Develop module, by default Lightroom displays previews using the ProPhoto RGB color space. ProPhoto RGB
contains all of the colors that digital cameras can capture, making it an excellent choice for editing images. In the
Develop module, you can also use the Soft Proofing panel to preview how color looks under various color-managed
printing conditions.