I totally agree with what John said.


Quote Originally Posted by btaylor
I have been told that Adobe RGB is the industry standard

Correct for designing companies, serious printwork etc, but not for most commercial photo-printers. Perhaps they could do it if you'd ask them, but normal output for printing photos is done with sRGB. It also gives the best result. If you'd send an adobeRGB file and an sRGBfile to print at a normal photo-printer, you'd see that the sRGB version comes out better. I've done quite some testing before I calibrated my monitor to see where the problem was [:P]


So my advice for most "normal users (just like me)" is just to stick with the sRGB and try out some prints with different settings at your favorite printing-service. I was testing with 8 files or something the last time I did that. All the same image, with variables of: sRGB vs adobeRGB, with or without auto-adjustment, even with or without metadata(to trick the auto-adjustment) and combinations of them. It only cost me like 2 euro, say 2.5 dollar so it's worth trying []


Good luck!