Re: [Lcms-user] Using LAB profiles in the real world

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On 24 June 2010 08:58, Richard Hughes <hug...@gm...> wrote:
> On 24 June 2010 08:37, Pavel Kanzelsberger <ka...@gm...> wrote:
>> basically if your image is not yet in Lab, you would need to do the conversion from RGB (source image) to Lab ... but then of course you can't display Lab pixels on your RGB monitor, so you need to convert again from Lab to RGB (monitor profile).
>
> Sure, but is there a way to do this automatically in LCMS?

Profile connection space is LAB, so just import with an sRGB profile
(if your RGB image is sRGB, some other profile otherwise) to get LAB,
apply your transform, then export again to RGB.

John