Colour space in Lightroom

I have had trouble getting photos exported from Lightroom to look the same as the photos displayed in Lightroom. The images seemed to lack colour saturation, the colours seemed to shift in their hue slightly and the contrast was reduced.

I realised that in the export mode you can set which colour space you wish to use when exporting the photos. I was using the standard 1998 setting. I tried using the sRGB setting and have got much better results so far. I have been warned however that using this setting can result in a loss of image quality but so far I am yet to see exactly what this means. I have actually set a colour space using a screen calibration device but I haven't worked out how I can use this colour space when exporting! Any ideas anyone? It's not coming up as an option when I export from Lightroom.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is amazing!

I've just invested in the new adobe photoshop lightroom package and its just amazing. Its a software package developed specifically for importing, cataloging, fine tuning and printing photographs. You can even publish a website straight to the internet with the push of a button! Its quite intuitive to use and there are lots of nice features such as simple shortcuts, screen fill mode and my personal favourite, you can turn out the lights on your computer so that you can better see your photograph! Like a darkroom. I've shown here a before and after example of a photo I have taken and subsequently developed in Lightroom.


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