Why no lighten/darken blending modes in Lab?

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Francesco_Fantauzzi
Mar 17, 2008
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Right. I was wondering the rationale behind that.
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George_Austin
Mar 17, 2008
I haven’t given it a thought for the other blends, but Lighten and Darken modes would apear to be redundant in LAB, since LAB provides a separate Luminance (or Lightness) channel with all chromatic data in the other two channels.
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George_Austin
Mar 19, 2008
Francesco,

More on this in the topic "Apply Image in LAB Question" posted by George Brown 02:47am Mar 18 2008:

<http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b4b7c0/3>

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