How To Get Great Color & Contrast With Landscape Shots (not HDR)

[ELAY]

Maybe it is a hardcover/softcover thing or something.

Anyway, I have sort of looked into the whole LAB thing, teetered on the brink, and then retreated to the regular manipulations in RGB.

Those LAB guys seem really hardcore -- anybody around here routinely work in LAB for colour management and correction?

EL

[Nieton21]

I really like the lab color adjustment and use it to increase the color saturation alot. I feel that it allow me to get a pretty reasonable saturation increase while maintaining a realistic effect. When I shoot in jpeg I always go that way and strongly recommend that style of saturation increase, but since I switched to shooting a lot of raw I have found it a really great tool to increase the color saturation using apple's aperture. So my recommendations are with jpegs go with the lab style and use the a/b channels to increase color and if your going with raw consider using the color enhancement tab for nice effect.