When I do a panorama or exposure blend, I typically export tifs from Lr in sRGB colorspace, run the pano/blend software with the tifs and then import the panorama output tif into Lr. The pano/blenders that I have don't maintain the EXIF file so I use exiftool.exe to attach an EXIF from one of the component tifs that I exported from Lr. They care nothing about colorspace, they just do their thing with whatever colors they are given. I would prefer to have the imported pano/blend tif be in the same color space that Lr uses with raw files so that I can print from these tifs just like I print from raw, with both starting off in the full Lr colorspace and converting only to the printer profile.
I tried exporting the tifs in ProPhoto colors and running the same procedure. If I reimport these same exported tifs back into Lr, the colors are right in Lr, even though they look awful when I look at the tif in Irfanview. When I import the pano output created from these ProPhoto tifs before attaching the EXIF from one of the exported tifs the colors in Lr are wrong. Even when I attach the EXIF using exiftool the colors are still wrong. Now I am very confused, if the colorspace isn't in the EXIF, where is it?
Werner
I tried exporting the tifs in ProPhoto colors and running the same procedure. If I reimport these same exported tifs back into Lr, the colors are right in Lr, even though they look awful when I look at the tif in Irfanview. When I import the pano output created from these ProPhoto tifs before attaching the EXIF from one of the exported tifs the colors in Lr are wrong. Even when I attach the EXIF using exiftool the colors are still wrong. Now I am very confused, if the colorspace isn't in the EXIF, where is it?
Werner