On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 00:29 +0000 (GMT) I ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Since vanilla RGB is completely device dependent, you seem to be saying that the
monitor's
> output gamut is a wider space than LAB? I wouldn't be surprised by this, and it
would seem
> a valuable attribute. A monitor which only showed us a fraction of the image
colours would
> be a pig to work with (try editing in 16 or 256colours:). Most of the colours in
a high-bit
> file are 'imaginary' as they inhabit a wider range of values than the monitor is
capable
> of, but this is a virtue we exploit when manipulating the image - the
manipulation brings
> colours within a gamut that is useful and visible to us. So what?
This last sentence is rubbish, of course. A high bit image in a given colour space
occupies the exact same gamut as an 8bit file in the same colour space. Well it was
about 3am.
Regards
Tony Sleep
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