Re: What Lab values for a yellow tonal scale?
Re: What Lab values for a yellow tonal scale?
- Subject: Re: What Lab values for a yellow tonal scale?
- From: neil snape <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:56:19 +0100
on 29/01/2002 10:31, Thomas Holm / Pixl at email@hidden wrote:
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Open Photoshop, and create the yellow swatches you like. Then open the info
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pallette, and set the colorpicker to Lab. Now you can read lab values from
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you CMYK wedge.
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Just make sure to pick the right CMYK profile: You need one that reflects
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the type of printing you would print the yellow swatches in. Different
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profiles will yield different lab numbers...
If I can add, be aware that only absolute rendering will fetch you the
readings including the paper base. That would more or less get you measured
spectro converted Lab readings.
Neil Snape email@hidden
http://mapage.noos.fr/nsnape