Camera Calibration part of email conversion?

[Jim Mohundro]

When I export to email I understanhd that a jpg will be created and the image will be downsized appropriately. If I export an otherwise non-post processed RAW image, is the "camera standard" calibration, or, indeed, any calibration added, along with any other image adjustments for the email?

 

[Sean McCormack]

All Raw files have a profile applied. For instance if I look at an older Raw, it might have 3.4 as a profile. More recent Raw files have Adobe Standard. On Export, all settings are applied.

 

[sizzlingbadger]

Don't think of a profile as an adjustment, it is the interpretation of the RAW data to create the image in the first place. Once we have an image we can then apply adjustments.

 

[Brad Snyder]

I'll take yet a third stab at explaining. There is no formally deterministic way of rendering raw sensor data into an RGB pixel raster. All such renderings are by nature subjective and empirically derived. Even calibrated renderings of known sample targets(various color cards, etc), in fixed lighting, are to a certain extent, applicable only to that specific shot. Various software, approaches this in various ways, with various terminology. I guess you could define the sensor/camera mfgr's rendering software as the default, but that's basically just semantics

So yes, anything you do in Lr, always starts with a rendering to 'some' profile. Depending on cameras and Lr versions, there may be multiple profiles provided to choose from, and you or third parties can always create custom profiles with the tools Adobe provides.

If you haven't done any image post processing, then the exported image adjustments will be confined to:
a) the inherent modifications of resampling, in this case downsampling.
b) the inherent modifications of the ProPhotoRGB to sRGB profile conversion.

 

[sizzlingbadger]

eloquently put Brad