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Same, what Sarah said ❤️

You are absolutely right, it would be much faster and cheaper but......the quality of a flatbed UV printer doesn't come close to a face mounted Acrylic Print.

Hi Mark, I'm not sure how good of a job lightroom does, photoshop does a decent job but they are both not yet as clear compared to the ai options we mentioned.

Thank you very much that is super useful information. I did not know that AI is amazing isn’t it?

Hi John, thank you for your comment. We recommend Adobe Photoshop because in Adobe Lightroom you can't directly set the color space for an image before importing because Lightroom doesn't alter the original image files. Instead, Lightroom preserves the color space and metadata of the images during import and editing. So to my understanding if you edit your images in Lightroom you are working in the Pro Photo color space and as this video demonstrates this will be "out of gamut" when you go to try and print. So if you edit in pro photo then export in adobe rgb 1998 or srgb you will be disappointed because the vivid colors you saw on your screen will be reduced in gamut. This is why we recommend either editing in Adobe Photoshop from beginning to end...or opening your original image in photoshop, save as Adobe RGB 1998, then open in Adobe Lightroom which should then allow you to stay and edit in Adobe RGB 1998 and export the same profile when finished. In summary it seems that Lightroom is more designed for editing your photos to look amazing on screen whereas Adobe Photoshop in RGB 1998 allows you to edit in what will be a more balanced screen to print solution. This is important when selling your prints. You don't want to show someone an image on screen that is in Pro photo or they will be disappointed when they receive a print that doesn't look as vibrant. Hope that helps:)

@@ArtbeatStudios Thanks very much for the detailed reply. I'm not selling prints, I just want to be able to buy prints of my photos which look like what I see on my screen. As you point out, so far I've been disappointed most of the time. I have had somewhat better luck with one of your competitors, but I think that's just luck with them guessing what I'm expecting (I allowed them to make adjustments, something which leaves me uneasy, when I've already adjusted the photo to the way I like on my screen). I would like to stay in Lightroom if possible, as it is infinitely easier to get the results I want, at least on screen. I'll give your suggestion a try... it looks like I have some learning to do in Photoshop just to accomplish saving the image in RGB 1998! Thanks again for your help.

​@@John-hq6emCan always export from Lightroom and convert to Adobe RGB. Then you can open in Photoshop to review. Also could open in Photoshop and "convert to profile" under the edit tab. This can show you the difference via the "preview" toggle switch which will show you the difference in color space before you commit. While some would argue that you should leave the pro photo as a default, I'm not sure why. Social media and most online platforms use Srgb. To get the best print results you would use Adobe RGB. If nothing can render "pro photo" colors either online or in print, then why not use Adobe RGB as the default Lightroom color space. Just a thought.

⁠​⁠@@TheMrmurphy101 Thanks Mr. Murphy. I’m reading you can’t change the color space in Lightroom CC, do you know otherwise, and if so, how to do it? Is it only available in Lightroom classic? I’ll skip asking why there has to be two completely different Lightrooms! Thanks for your help, I clearly have a lot to learn.

​@@John-hq6em did not know you can't change your default in Lightroom CC. Soft proof can be hit or miss but, could be an option. Honestly, every printer will be different and you cannot possibly have seen a "pro photo" print, as it is always a conversion of color once in print. The extra colors the pro photo gammut can see are converted to the best the printer/media can do anyways. Best to stick with the same printer and edit for their equipment, using their recommendations. You may also find that a lot of printers will just convert for their own printer specs anyways. Suppose that means open the exported Adobe RGB file in Photoshop and see if you're happy with it.

Hi Louis, thank you for your comment! We have experimented a lot in the past with custom ICC profiles and what we have found is that Adobe RGB 1998 is the standard that the vast majority of our customers are happy with. This is what we recommend for all of our professional photography clients and it has been received very well. Some companies offer a different ICC profile that they customize for every type of media. From the feedback we have received this only makes things harder for professionals that print their photos on many different medias. Adobe RGB 1998 simplifies this for the photographer editing in photoshop as well as us in making sure our printers are calibrated for this specific profile, which has the widest color gamut of the other profiles. Hope that helps and we wish you the best!

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