Section 03
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Colour space, sharpening, and why it looked right on your monitor.
Display P3 covers 25 percent more than sRGB
sRGB, Display P3 and ProPhoto describe different sized boxes of colour, and an image handed between them without a profile is being reinterpreted rather than moved.
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Full archive →- Display P3 covers 25 percent more than sRGBsRGB, Display P3 and ProPhoto describe different sized boxes of colour, and an image handed between them without a profile is being reinterpreted rather than moved.
- Lightroom separates capture sharpening from output sharpeningThe amount that is right for a print is wrong for a screen, which is why it belongs at export and not in the file.
- A colorimeter takes twenty minutes and settles the argumentA ColorChecker or a SpyderX takes twenty minutes and settles most arguments about whether the file or the screen is wrong.
- JPEG XL saves bytes but little software opens itJPEG XL and AVIF both do more with fewer bytes. Neither has the thirty years of everything-opens-it that JPEG has.