I never used LAB mode. BUT: [link] --> hope it helps. Scroll down a bit.

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_{胆沢 リッコ Rikko Isawa - Designer, Digital Painter, Photographer, Translator and Writer
常陸院 黒 Kuro Hitachiin - Cosplayer, Seamster, Model, Journalist and Photographer.}

I use CMYK to paint in from time to time, I've got this overall sense that the colors are much more realistic then. Photoshop 6.0/CS2.0

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you have opened a new question for me. sadly at the moment I'm still ¯\(°_O)/¯

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very good link, i didn't know about that mode! thank you very much!

Haha me too, the smilie is too awesome xDDD

Oh thanks!

I never read about it... I'm gonna try use this too. Looks better to me!

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I'm still trying to figure out the difference between RGB and CMYK. I don't even know how to change that let alone paint with it, I'd probably try it though if I could figure it out First time I'm hearing of LAB though @.@ G'luck with that.

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That happens because you see the colours less bright, just like they will be on paper if you print (paper has no light like a screen to bright up the colours). But her question is pertinent, she just wants to know about LAB colour and how it works, not which mode is better i think.

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_{胆沢 リッコ Rikko Isawa - Designer, Digital Painter, Photographer, Translator and Writer
常陸院 黒 Kuro Hitachiin - Cosplayer, Seamster, Model, Journalist and Photographer.}

Glad you like Jana

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Watching Nazi Vampires jumping off an airship without parachutes give me a hard on.