Color Spaces - RGB, CMYK, YUV

[Bart Coppens]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 12:51, Casper Boemann wrote:
> yes precission is lost, but using RGB as internal format looses too PLUS
> there is a real possibillity of going out of gamut.
Well yes, but I suggest not using a standardized internal format at all. The 
idea of using XYZ as an additional format is good, though.

> Yes storing in the format of the colorspace of the last storing in addition
> to XYZ is smart. And should be done - no doubt about that. That way you
> have zero loss when no conversion is needed and large gamut conversion
> otherwise.
Exactly :-)

> But most users won't use a YUV colorchooser, but hsv or rgb and so you have
> to convert.
Of course, but we should leave the possibility open of having one for the 
specialized users (that don't want loss of precision)