Hi Christian Macey, > Pedro, it's a shame that Dan Margulis is not on this > list to answer the > question (I think he's teaching PS in Russia at the > present time). IMHO > Dan has come up with the best ground breaking > techniques for the use of > LAB mode. But these do not include converting to LAB > just to reduce the > size of an image. Likewise other people suggest > converting to LAB from > RGB or CMYK just to sharpen an image but this is > also totally > unnecessary. Hope to hear something soon... Whenever someone returns from Russia ;-) Sure. There are more to explore here. Using channels, luminosity, etceteras. ... skip...
> I'm sure there are other instances but with a > screaming four week old > baby daughter in one arm (who incidentally I'm > trying to start early on > PS) and a mouse in the other, that will have to do > for now. He he... I had my time with my two kids... They're grown ups now. > > P.S. LAB envelopes all other colour spaces and > should be used with > care. Turning on the gamut warning is a must when > editing colour in > LAB, before returning to either RGB or CMYK. The advantage here, I think, is that LAB enveloping all other colour spaces is also mapping mathematically color pixels of all of them. And it's very easy to turn from LAB to RGB or any other colour space after you've done your job. Am I right? []s Pedro Luz Cunha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
