154 Twenty Tips and Tricks to Winning on Microstocks
FIGURE 8.6 Concept shots—your key to riches? © Dušanzidar/Dreamstime. Also check out the main cover shot.
to an 8-bit fi le and save as a JPEG. Think of Adobe RGB as the color
equivalent of a 16-bit TIFF, and sRGB as the equivalent of an 8-bit TIFF.
Adobe RGB (and other color spaces) contains a lot of color data.
However, some of those data are beyond the capability of most com-
puter monitors or four-color offset printing presses to reproduce. In
particular, Adobe RGB images look a little washed out and undersatu-
rated if they are displayed on the Web or at some Web browsers. The
last thing you want is for your great, punchy, colorful images to look
bad when seen by buyers; so, to prevent this, make sure your JPEG
microstock shots are converted to sRGB before you submit them.
It may be that your camera has a setting that allows you to change
from sRGB to Adobe RGB and back again. My preferred workfl ow is
as follows:- If your camera supports raw fi le format, use it; convert from raw, save as 16-bit
TIFFs, Adobe RGB color space, and then open and manipulate as necessary in