A friend who is a digital artist using the latest regular Photoshop told me that Elements is not in sRGB space, but in 1998 (whatever that is). She said that means (for example) if I send her my images, the color she sees is not the color I see when using Elements version 8. Beyond a certain point technically, some of the terminology used in Elements and Photoshop is like greek to me.
All I know is that I want everything in sRGB for submission, assuming monitor viewing (maybe some projection) so I always check before finishing. I assumed that meant I was SEEING my image in sRGB.
If for some reason an image is RGB (and for some unknown reason, some are), I don’t actually see a difference after I convert it (but would I?)
When I went to my last open jury (ZAPP conference Chicago 2 + years ago), my images looked pretty much the way I was used to seeing them on my home desktop monitor (ViewSonic E90fB).
Of course, there’s the color space AND there’s also the calibration, which I don’t recall doing.
So….if Elements 8 is NOT in sRGB space, how can I tell what I’m doing when I tweak colors like on my booth background? For example, my booth curtains look pinkish, which clashes with my work in copper. The actual curtains are a dark rusty burgundy, which goes great with copper, but I can’t seem to get them the real color.
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No program is in a color space. The color space has to be assigned or converted to.
In Elements or full Photoshop, go to File>Save for Web> and choose embed sRGB in the resulting JPEG. For a direct conversion, go to Edit>Convert to profile and choose sRGB. In either programs you can choose your working color space to be sRGB.
This has nothing to do with calibration and what other color problems you're having could be that the color you've chosen is out of gamut. That means it's not a color that can be rendered in your working color space.
And it sounds like your friend hasn't set up their color preferences yet in Photoshop.
Larry Berman
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Your friend is misinformed. Elements will work in sRGB or Adobe RGB 1998. Going to Mode will allow you the option of selecting one or the other. It comes up as Adobe RGB as the default.