Tom Mann
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Renegade and Fatboy have given *spot-on advice*, especially about doing most of your initial work at high resolution in a wide gamut space, and then doing a final conversion (with soft proofing on) to the appropriate narrow gamut spaces to generate a file for a particular use (eg, for a web-fed offset press run, for a small number of large inkjet (aka, Giclee) archival art prints, etc.).
I've been doing and preaching this workflow for re-purposing files for years (including describing it in recent threads on PSG), and it works wonderfully.
T
PS - It also amazes me how many people will still claim / state that CMYK has a wider gamut than RGB spaces without any qualification on their statement. Yes, it's true that some cmyk printing methods extend further into the greens than sRGB, but that's about it. Compare even the widest gamut cmyk methods to ProPhoto and it's not even a contest.
I've been doing and preaching this workflow for re-purposing files for years (including describing it in recent threads on PSG), and it works wonderfully.
T
PS - It also amazes me how many people will still claim / state that CMYK has a wider gamut than RGB spaces without any qualification on their statement. Yes, it's true that some cmyk printing methods extend further into the greens than sRGB, but that's about it. Compare even the widest gamut cmyk methods to ProPhoto and it's not even a contest.
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