How is Photoshop Lab color for illustrations?

Question

Looking for someone with knowledge in Photoshop Lab Color to help me answer this. My company uses Photoshop to color-correct scanned images of painted artwork, illustrations. A lot of flat, pure color.

There is some recent demand to convert our art from CMYK to Lab colorspace, for device indepenence. Not only will it be difficult for us on so many levels (like being used to working with colors separately and getting perfect yellows, whites, etc.), but we wonder how the colorspace will act when we apply our illustrations to it. The books we've read through on this subject seem only to highlight the use of this colorspace when applied to photographs.

oh....and Please don't bother answering this question if you think that Photoshop Lab color is a program.

Answer 1

Id say stick with CMYK.
In my 20 years of commercial printing, when ever we get files in Lab mode, they always cause problems.
As Im sure you know, CMYK is universal for printing, and RGB is universal for Web work.

Who is demanding the change to Lab colors?
Designers, printers, customers?
Unless the people who are requesting the files in Lab mode, give you a good reason to change it, Id stick with CMYK for your work.
Or maybe only do the files that they want in Lab, and let them worry about the problems they will encounter.

Hope this offers some insight.
Good luck.

Answer 2

i dunno, but i went to the art insitute of atlanta and we always used Photoshop 7. I say you guys should stay with the mainstream photoshop applications because switching to another program is not only more costly, but requires more training etc. So far i am able to do everything with photoshop 7 that any professional touch up artist can cook up.

Answer 3

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