Jeremy Jachym
pro member
I've been doing my color editing in the LAB space, but have recently been experimenting with CMYK and like what I've found. I've read some people's thoughts on CMYK editing and it seems like less channels to edit is more appealing than more. Personally, I like a fourth curve option.
I know that there's been discussions whether converting from RGB to LAB is destructive and as far as I'm concerned the answer is a quasi "yes", but it's so minor that it's not an issue. As I understand it LAB is the subset of RGB, so all the colors in the RGB gamut will be found in the LAB gamut as well, but CMYK's gamut is smaller than both, so in theory converting an RGB or LAB file to a CMYK color space would clip quite a bit more color?
I've been doing some edits and comparing the histogram afterwards and from what I can tell it seems rather than being destructive it's the opposite. What are the known pitfalls of CMYK editing and how can I experience the proof? Thank you.
I know that there's been discussions whether converting from RGB to LAB is destructive and as far as I'm concerned the answer is a quasi "yes", but it's so minor that it's not an issue. As I understand it LAB is the subset of RGB, so all the colors in the RGB gamut will be found in the LAB gamut as well, but CMYK's gamut is smaller than both, so in theory converting an RGB or LAB file to a CMYK color space would clip quite a bit more color?
I've been doing some edits and comparing the histogram afterwards and from what I can tell it seems rather than being destructive it's the opposite. What are the known pitfalls of CMYK editing and how can I experience the proof? Thank you.