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Term: Adobe RGB

Definition:
Adobe RGB is a Red-Green-Blue color space developed to display on computer monitors most of the colors of CMYK color printers. Adobe RGB specifies a D65 white point at a luminance of 160 cd/m2 and a gamma of 2.2. The Adobe RGB color space is significantly larger than the sRGB color space particularly in the cyan and green regions.
Category:
Image
Resource:
Adobe RGB specification
http://www.adobe.com/digitalimag/pdfs/AdobeRGB1998.pdf
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