Canon® EOS Digital Photography Photo Workshop

2.8. GETTING THE MOST FROM YOUR CANON DSLR

At this point you may be asking yourself, "What settings should I use with my camera?" In addition to your settings for exposure and composition, your Canon dSLR image will look best when you take full advantage of your camera's color, image size/resolution, Picture Style, and custom function settings. These can make all the difference in producing great images more easily, but you need to spend some time understanding what they do and why they're important.

2.8.1. COLOR SPACE SETTING

Which color space setting to use is a frequently asked question, and for good reason. The manual usually contains little or no guidance or tutorial covering this topic, only the name of the color spaces and how to set them. Think of color space as all the colors that can be represented in a given image, or all the shades of red, green, and blue that your camera can capture and reproduce. Color space options on Canon's dSLRs enable you to maintain a consistent color workflow from capture through printing. Color management is important because the choice of color space, or gamut, defines the range of colors that can be reproduced in your images. And, as you might suspect, having more colors is preferable to having fewer colors, especially when it comes to printing images.

Canon dSLRs offer two color space options:

• sRGB. Used extensively on the Web and designed especially for image display on personal computers, the sRGB color space appears brighter and more ...