LAB's not a good colour space
LAB's not a good colour space
- Subject: LAB's not a good colour space
- From: gvido trepsha <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 11:41:42 -0500
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SilverFast keeps all operations in RGB colour space. LAB is merely used as a
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reference colour space internally. LAB colour space has been intensely
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promoted by Linotype-Hell when they introduced LinoColor. As it turned out,
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LAB is not a good colour space to work with (except for a very few), that is
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why LAB never has been successfully been used in imaging software for
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corrections.
Anybody's willing to comment on why LAB is not a good color space; and who
are "very few" exceptions?
For years I did corrections in RGB (matching original paintings to the
screen), then at last I was persuaded to try the same in LAB, and "never
looked back" -- more control and easier.
G.
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