On: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 Michael Shaffer wrote:- > william writes ... > >> .....and some of the colours in Adobe RGB cannot be seen >> by the human eye never mind a monitor. ... > > I thought the color space L*a*b defined what human eyes could "see", and > AdobeRGB is within L*a*b(?)
Oh, I stand corrected....does this mean that L*a*b covers near infra-red and near ultra-violet which the human eye can percieve, if not 'see'? It is these 'invisible' colours that have a profound influence upon the brightly coloured part of the visible spectrum. Think flowers in noonday sunshine. BTW, the visual world is made up of an infinite number of colours - much more than the 16 million colours within a 24bit colourspace. CMYK even less. So if something looks good in print it means that the viewers eye is fooled into thinking there are more colours on the page than there were originally. This is why I say vision is liquid, and why my job is to do the 'seeing' for others. all the best William Curwen =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
