Can you please change the default color settings in Photoshop from sRGB to Adobe RGB?

@Scott Stulberg 

Printers don't "use Adobe RGB". Every printer/paper/ink combination has its own specific profile.

It's true that Adobe RGB will cover these print profiles completely (for all practical purposes) - but not the other way around. Lots of Adobe RGB colors will be out of gamut and cannot be reproduced in any print profile. You will still get a lot of gamut clipping that you need to deal with and remap.

The bigger your document color space is, the bigger this remapping problem can become. Remapping a ProPhoto file, for instance, can be almost unmanageable. Remapping an sRGB file, however, is usually quite unproblematic.

In other words, it's a balance. To fully take advantage of the printer's capabilities, Adobe RGB is often required. But you need to know what you're doing! If not, you'll be better off with sRGB.

Agree with Lumigraphics. Most images without included color profiles are sRGB (web). So it's safer to have sRGB in preferences just for them. Any more advanced graphics NEEDS to have color profiles included (and Photoshop will recognize and uses them). More advanced users creating new files in Adobe RGB should be able to set their desired preferences (and should be aware of the consequences of opening files without profiles).

You need to do some reading about printers and colorspaces. Your post is flat out wrong.

Hey again,

so the reason I would have always liked Adobe RGB as the default is that many students and others do not know about changing the color space after opening up Photoshop. Then they get into working on images and then many want to print them. Most decent printers use Adobe RGB and by then it is too late as most of the colors are gone with sRGB.

So, yes, sRGB can be easier and it is the space for the web, but seems strange to not have a bigger color space right off the bat, just to be safe.

I am not sure if I understand why Adobe RGB would open up more problems for people. It is the first thing I change with any upgrade to Photoshop as I work in Photoshop to produce images to print. I guess manyy others only work on the web.

But I guess to each his own.

🙂

scotty

Indeed. No reason to get upset over this. In fact, I always advise beginners to stay with sRGB until they understand why they might want to change it. Until they do, they are just likely to get in trouble.

Bigger isn't necessarily better. But in this case, safer can be better.

Photoshop is targeted at professional users. Your students need to learn right from the start that there isn't a lot of handholding. They will need to configure the application exactly the way they need it. At the same time, defaults need to be those which will lead to the fewest problems. And finally, I'm sure you know that many types of print have a smaller gamut than even sRGB.

I am not sure why Adobe keeps placing sRGB as the default since it is a much smaller color space.

By @Scott Stulberg

I believe that is the exact reason, it's the lowest common denominator that leads to the least amount of problems for less knowledgable colour management users.