Lab Color Values in Photoshop
Lab Color Values in Photoshop
- Subject: Lab Color Values in Photoshop
- From: "Fleisher, Ken" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:43:26 -0400
- Thread-topic: Lab Color Values in Photoshop
Title: Lab Color Values in Photoshop
Hi. I’m trying to get a list of Lab colors from an image in Photoshop CS2. I am pretty close, but I am getting a discrepancy between my a and b values in my list and the corresponding values in the image. More specifically, I am measuring the colors in the image (which is in Lab mode) using a single pixel eye dropper. I get the Lab values from AppleScript using a single pixel selection and finding the histogram bin that contains a 1. After getting the Lab values through my AppleScript, I am converting them as follows:
set L to L * (100 / 255)
set a to a - 128
set b to b – 128
It is basically working, but there is a difference between my values and the color picker values. I am assuming that this is somehow due to quantization errors, but I can’t figure out which is more correct and what I should use. Also, it doesn’t seem to be consistent for a simple round off error. I am perfectly content with the L values since I can see how they round to the values shown in the color picker. However, the a and b values are integers which don’t match up. The types of differences that I’m seeing are evident in the following two lists:
>From AppleScript:
{{0.0, 0, 0}, {0.0, 0, -12}, {5.098039215686, -17, 8}, {5.098039215686, -16, -4}, {1.960784313725, 15, 3}, {1.960784313725, 16, -9}, {7.058823529412, -1, 11}, {7.058823529412, 0, 0}}
>From the color picker in Photoshop:
{{0,0,0}, {0,1,-12}, {5,-17,8}, {5,-16,-3}, {2,16,3}, {2,17,-8}, {7,-1,12}, {7,0,0}}
Any ideas why there is a discrepancy and which values are more correct?
Thanks.
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Ken Fleisher
Photographer
Imaging & Visual Services
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Phone: (202) 712-7471
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