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is represented by the odd-shaped splotch of color shown in Figure 8.27, as defined by scientists at an international organization back in 1931. The colors possible with Adobe RGB are represented by the larger, black triangle in the figure, while the sRGB gamut is represented by the smaller white triangle.

Regardless of which triangle—or color space—is used by the D7000, you end up with some combination of 16.8 million different colors that can be used in your photograph. (No one image will contain all 16.8 million! If each and every pixel in a D7000’s 16- megapixel image were a different color—which is extremely unlikely—you’d need only 16 million different colors.) But, as you can see from the figure, the colors available will be different.

Adobe RGB is an expanded color space useful for commercial and professional print- ing, and it can reproduce a wider range of colors. It can also come in useful if an image is going to be extensively retouched, especially within an advanced image editor, like Adobe Photoshop, which has sophisticated color management capabilities that can be tailored to specific color spaces. As an advanced user, you don’t need to automatically “upgrade” your D7000 to Adobe RGB, because images tend to look less saturated on your monitor and, it is likely, significantly different from what you will get if you out- put the photo to your personal inkjet. (You can profile your monitor for the Adobe RGB color space to improve your on-screen rendition, as I’ll describe shortly.)

Figure 8.27

The outer figure shows all the colors we can see; the two inner outlines show the bound- aries of Adobe RGB (black tri- angle) and sRGB (white triangle).