Color Spaces are tricky business. Follow the guide below to keep your photo's colors as consistent as possible through your workflow! 0:57 Brief Background on Color Spaces 1:37 Common Color Spaces 3:04 Color Space Uses 4:32 Color Settings in Photoshop 9:32 Assigning Color Profiles to RAW 12:50 Color Settings from Lightroom to Photoshop 14:08 Color Settings for Export from Lightroom

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For the first time in years I finally understood very clearly how color spaces work, you made it very clear and simple, great video, thanks!!

This is the best explanation of color spaces I ever found in web. Thanks, Aaron.

A million thank yous for this! A complicated concept simply explained.

You never cease to amaze me. I got it! Finally taught in a way I could understand. Thank you

Thanks Aaron, very instructive. I really appreciate the time and preparation you invest in preparing your exceptional tutorials. Much appreciated!

One of the most useful videos I saw, no crap only professional and well-explained data. Should be 10 times more views..

This is one of the most helpful videos I have watched photography wise, if not the most helpful. Excellent.

Thank you for the tut' once again you've explained it in "plain speak " over the years you have improved my photoshop and photography skills beyond the call of duty, and for that I thank you

This was super helpful! I have never understood the different color spaces and now I TOTALLY get it!! Thanks for the tips to change settings in Photoshop and Lightroom too.

Thanks for this tutorial! It's saved me a bunch of time bringing photos in from LR that were in ProPhoto but didn't play well with an sRGB template I have to use regularly. Now it's set up to ask when transferring over to PS and I can switch automatically to sRGB on import.

Thank you, Aaron! Your presentation style is excellent! You made a VERY difficult subject easier for me to understand (I still don't really understand it but I understand it a lot better than before because of this video). Keep up the good work!

This was a really perfect explanation and walk through as always. Thank you x

Aaron Stark! Iron Photoshopman! Great and clear tutorial!

Great video: well-paced, informative, and accurate. Thank you.

Excellent, you are always smiling .thanks for everything

Man, you are such a sweet guy! What another GREAT (fun!) and SIMPLE presentation of The Subject. I've had always questions about this and, in the end, color profiles are not that complicated. Thank YOU, Aaron, my teacher.

Yay! Thanks so much Aaron. I was struggling getting to the bottom of this information. Cannot wait to go home and check my settings. 👍

Thanks for the info and always producing great content.

Brilliant video explaining a complicated topic in a simple fashion. I finally get it!

Thank you so very much Aaron! Very helpful tutorial!

One of the most informative videos I've ever watched :)

You are always so clear! I finally got it ! you are great !

Superexcellent Aaron, very helpful. A million thanks!

Love these videos! so easy to follow and understand

I think this has cleared up a LOT of misinformation. This question comes up SOO often in Facebook groups and you always get people guessing the answer or giving what is clearly the wrong answer. I personally learnt quite a bit from this and have adjusted some of my settings. A few times throughout i was think "ah but what about......." and within seconds you answered my thought. So well done on the video and well done on apparently reading my mind lol.

This is so helpful and well explained. Thanks

Thank you, thank you!!! I was looking for this info everywhere and it was so confusing! You explained just perfectly clear!

Great stuff.Thank YOU!

Really excellent and useful thanks Aaron

Thanks for clearing that up Aaron

Excellent informative tutorial , many thanks

So well explained everything, thank you!

Love your content Aaron, I learned so much from you for MY OWN KZfaq THUMBNAILS.

Thank you so much for this video!

You are a good teacher! Explaining verse clearly.

Very informative! Thank you!

Very helpful as always! Thank you! :)

Awesome info! 🙏

I love your videos. Thanks a lot. Very helpful.

Thanks so much very helpful!

Well done on a tough topic !! Thx

Thank you very much for this amazing tutorial. It helped me a whole lot!

This video is incredible

This video save my life!!

This had so much useful info. Thanks!

Thanks mate! Great information :)

You are such an expert and intelligent guy

oh, it all makes perfect sense now, thanks 😊

Thanks! Very helpful.

This video helped me better understand the color spaces that the programs and cameras have....thank you! Definitely will subscribe to your channel.

This came at a right time.

Beautifully explained:) I'm not great with colour- can use all the help I can get!

I love this guy's honesty! "Put it in the top adobe! Its not even obvious you can click there!" So many times its not until i see a tutorial that i realize hey thats actually an option to click! *face palm* PShop is not beginner friendly, thank God for these free tutorials or else I 'd be completely lost .

Thank you sooo much for your videos. I was having trouble with my photos.

Great episode !

Excellent... Thank you!

Really helpful, thank you!

I was shooting, editing, and exporting all my photos in AdobeRGB. You have saved my proverbial bacon, my friend. Will ALWAYS export in sRGB now in Lightroom. Yikes.. to think what kind of calamity has already happened and would've happened if I didn't watch this vid!

Thank you so much for this editorial, i have really struggled with my colours and this as made so much sense now. Please keep up the great work as i find photoshop so very difficult kind regards Lee

thank you so much its really helpful

Useful. Thanks.

Hi Aaron Nace, In-depth High-level tutorial. I am your KZfaq fan since 2012, almost, I have seen your all Photoshop and Lightroom tutorial and learned many things. I SUBSCRIBED your KZfaq channel "PHLEARN" and ring the bell so never miss your any update. Thank you! Sadat

It´s a very important tutorial. Many o us don´t know much about it. Thanks

you just made my life easier ...... thanks a lot

Thank you Aaron !

Thankyou, at last some who doesn't overcomplicate a complex subject

Damn dude, this was super helpful. I know almost nothing about photoshop and I was editing an image that I screenshotted but when I opened it it was darker and more saturated, and it happened again after opening the exported version. Turns out the Color Settings were all out of wack. Thanks!

This video helped explain something I have been avoiding for years because I thought it was too complex for me to understand. So for that I thank you so much. Although you missed something important at 12:45. You forgot to check "Embed Color Profile" and thus saved the image WITHOUT embedding the color profile! Leaving you with an image which requires the fix you laid out at length at 6:15. Be the solution not the problem! ha. Anyways, just a little note, but love the videos!

Thank you so much.

awesome video! remember! it's east to take away, but a lot harder to add.

thank you so much!

Respect! wonderful video :)

Thank you so much

You are the best!

Thank you, thank you!

Thank you.

Well done! Complicated but I understood it

Nicely done Aaron. That's a lot of information to cover in a way people can understand. Thanks! However I do have two comments. First, because I open multiple images at a time in Photoshop which are usually RAW or exported from Lightroom previously as ProPhoto for further editing in Photoshop, I do NOT have my working space as sRGB. That would drive me bonkers. I have the workspace set to ProPhoto. If I set it to sRGB then every file I open would give me a prompt due to the ProPhoto colourspace in the file and the mismatched sRGB workspace. It hurts just thinking about it. My workflow is 100 percent Prophoto until I export from Photoshop for print or web. No prompts appear unless I open a file without a colourspace, which would be something downloaded from the web as you said. Second, your section on exporting from Lightroom assumed that you would only export from Lightroom for use on the web, thus the sRGB colourspace for export. However many (most?) pro/semi-pro users would do some work in Lightroom on multiple files and then export (save) those files for further editing at some point in Photoshop. Those exports should be in PROPHOTO, not sRGB! If you dumb down the file on export from Lightroom, then you lose all that colour information. Once it's gone it's gone. Opening that sRGB file in Photoshop, even in a Prophoto colourspace, will not get you back all that data you threw away. So I would suggest that there are multiple paths or workflows you could have, depending on how you plan to edit. Maintaining a ProPhoto colourspace ALL through the edits and workflow is very important. The sRGB conversion should be done on that last export for print or web.

In less than 5 minutes I have learned a ton about color spaces, from you Aaron. I was just on the phone with BayPhoto.com because I wanted to print my photos to glass, acrylic, and metal for a comparison of two photos across all three medium respectively. BayPhoto.com informed me that they print using Adobe RGB (1998), which I didn't know too much about. I was calling them because I also learned that BayPhoto.com and MetalPrints.com are sister companies and when I loaded my images into both websites, one of the images presented differently in the browser; which is what brought up the discussion about "Color Spaces."

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo important! 👍👍👍❤️

Thanks sir, very well lessin

Thank you, i had this damn problem when i transfer photo form Lightroom and camera raw to photoshop and the colours changed. and finally i resolved thanks to you.

very easy to understand, even for me who English is not my mother tongue. Thanks a lot!

Very well explained, thank you very much! Do you like to do another part explaining calibrating and profiling a monitor? And another part creating images for prints in a special ISO Coated profile?

excelent thank you

Thank you

Thanks Aaron - very helpful! I would also appreciate a tutorial about color profiles used by print shops and how to install them and select them in PhotoShop for exporting images for printing (if the print shop offers them - e.g. COSTCO does if you talk the right person).

Thanks you Sir

That ''aha moment"' just entered into my brain

Thanks a lot

Thank you, really interesting, but like quite a few others it would be really helpful if you could cover the next step, what settings to use to get accurate colours out of my home photo printer.

You are awesome!

Really interesting video, very well explained, but need to watch it a few times ...??

thank you...

Okay, I really appreciate this video, but what I want to see is a comprehensive tutorial that not only focuses on the color spaces in PS, but covers the whole workflow. I now purchased a wide-gamut 10-bit monitor, Precision laptop with Quadro graphics (10bit/channel) card and monitor calibrator. It is not that easy to find easily-accessible information on how to correctly set everything up for work in different color spaces.

thanks

Great tutorial for one of the most badly understood bits in photography!

I was walking and suddenly remembered this and i search it and now i feel like I've accomplished something so good