Question 15

Which colour space do raw files use?

ANSWER (C) Score 1 The correct answer is (C). Photographers endlessly debate the pros and cons of the sRGB colour space versus Adobe RGB, and all ‘serious’ cameras offer you the choice in their shooting settings. Adobe RGB has a slightly wider colour gamut that can be useful in printing, but sRGB displays more predictably across different devices.

If you shoot JPEGs you have to decide on the spot, with no going back. But one of the advantages of shooting raw is that you don’t have to decide on the colour space until later (regardless of which option you chose in-camera) because raw files use a larger, undefined colour space of their own.

Your colour space choice applies only when you save a processed JPEG or TIFF image, so with a raw file, you can produce two versions of your work: one for online web use (sRGB) and one for commercial publication (Adobe RGB).

Export settings Adobe Camera Raw and other raw converters export images as TIFF or JPEG files using settings you can choose according to the way the picture will be used. sRGB vs Adobe RGB With a raw file you can choose the colour space you need for...