Hey Martin! Yes, and Illustrator just converts your Lab values to the Document color space (CMYK or RGB), clipping and all. Sigh. I don’t understand why Photoshop wouldn’t support Lab decimals. In some cases, changing a single Lab integer can change the RGB value by 3-5 points - a big jump! We need more precision. We’ve got to stop using RIP color libraries and just be able to define color with precision from the beginning. Scott Martin www.on-sight.com Imaging Science for Art
On Jan 11, 2024, at 11:05 AM, Martin Orpen via colorsync-users <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
On 11 Jan 2024, at 16:14, Scott Martin via colorsync-users <colorsync-users@lists.apple.com> wrote:
My big beef is that Adobe refuses to support Lab color mode in Illustrator, and doesn’t support decimals for Lab values in Photoshop. This would make a massive difference for a lot of my clients.
Especially annoying in pre-press workflows that Illustrator doesn’t support decimals for custom Lab spot colours.
I can understand why they wouldn’t bother in Photoshop, but Illustrator?
It means that every custom colour on packaging jobs has to be looked up, verified and then either added to the rip colour libraries or manually overridden on every proof.
This wastes so much time.
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