Re: LAB as working/interchange space
Re: LAB as working/interchange space
- Subject: Re: LAB as working/interchange space
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 09:54:31 EDT
In a message dated 5/24/01 6:22:00 AM, email@hidden writes:
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So using (8bit) Lab the color as such is still OK but you have lost
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precision. You may be able to avoid this using 16bit Lab but that is not
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yet very well supported in standard tools and also implies a performance
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penalty (larger file sizes, longer times to process, etc.) .
Unfortunately 16 bit Lab has simply added more significant digits to 8 bit
Lab, and not increased the size of the space, so clipping still occurs in
large gamut (or even some pretty reasonable gamut) RGB spaces.
C. David Tobie
Design Cooperative
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