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In article <m0s2q9023s3@news1.newsguy.com>, PeterN <peter@verizon.net> wrote:

bottom line: rgb->lab->rgb offers no benefit (other than possibly contrived edge cases nobody will ever encounter).

PeterN
IOW you you have never worked in LAB

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i have, and quite a bit. lab is useful for certain tasks, but photo editing isn't one of them.

PeterN
You have never noticed the ease of a color change in LAB, compared to making a similar color change in RGB.

YOu have never brought out color using LAB that could not easily be brought out in RGB.

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nonsense.

you just don't know how to do it in rgb.

PeterN
The above are "edge cases."

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if you say so.