I am using AI and PS CS5.I have an eps in AI that is set for RGB. The colors are how I want them.
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When I open the same eps in PS, PS thinks the file is CMYK. Whether I open the file as CMYK and convert to RGB or open at RGB, the colors shift. If I leave the file as CMYK, the colors are shifted.
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I can confirm that when I convert the file in AI from RGB to CMYK, I can see the color shift. If I leave the file as RGB in AI, it looks how I want.cannot get the file to show in PS as the same color as what I see in AI.I have confirmed that both AI and PS have color settings set to NA GP2.
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Basically, the file with AI in RGB mode looks how I want. The file with AI in CMYK mode looks different.In PS, both RGB and CMYK color mode are the same as CMYK in AI. am not sure why PS does not show the RGB colors like AI does.PS CS5 and AI CS5 are synched:{URL]...
I've been creating book covers in paint shop pro 8. I create the covers from images that I get from my customers, and then send them off to a printer to be printed. On a couple of occasions, the printer people have came back and told me my cover is created in "rich" black. I think they mean the CMYK value is 100% for all 4 colors. They won't accept that. My question is, in photoshop, is there a way once I receive an image to check and see what the CMYK value of that image is, and if so, fix potential problems as described above? It doesn't appear I can in paint shop pro. I have been looking for a good reason to purchase photoshop anyway since I'm sure its a much better graphics program.
I have just started using Photoshop CS3 amending photos and adding text & graphic for printing. The photos start off in RGB but when I get them printed in CMYK they look dark and terrible! how to handle the transition of photos from RGB to CMYK and how to avoid making them darker/destroying the quality?
I was give an image in RGB to put onto my own image which is CMYK. Now that I have spent an hour color matching it, when I go to cut and paste it only one part of it at a time comes over and it looks awful.
I have set up 2 a2 architecxture presentation boards in photoshop in rgb, have come to print them and the colours are a lot more acidy and bright than on screen.
I have a flattened .psd file with significant areas of contaminated black that needs to be changed to key color black. The problem is that the color mode was changed from RGB to CMYK at the last minute after the file was flattened and saved, so now I'm stuck with large black areas that are not PANTONE process black, but are 90% K with varying levels of CM and Y. I need to replace the large impure black swaths of my file with true key color black without compromising the quality of the file to ensure the project succeeds.
I sometimes Export a vector image with a text I put on, from Illustrator to PS. I do that because I want to work some more on it. However, I'm not sure whether to Export as CMYK or RGB. I have been told that there are more options for working on an image, if it's RGB, it that true? Mostly, I want to do some effects on the text.
I've done my work in Illustrator, I want to take it to Photoshop. If I drag it from Illustrator (CMYK) to a blank document in Photoshop, should the blank document be in RGB or CMYK?
I have a folder of images, some in RGB, some in CMYK. I want them all to be in RGB so I'm running a batch action on them with a conditional mode change. So, if a file is in CMYK, it is changed to RGB.
But if a file is already in RGB, I get this annoying alert, telling me "Mode of the document is the same as the target mode. No conversion performed."
Well, of course. I don't expect it to be converted. That's why I chose CONDITIONAL mode change! I don't want to have to hold PS's hand through this batch but it's making me sit through the conversion of hundreds of files simply so I can say okay that it's doing what I asked it to do.
I've checked the "suppress color profile warnings" box and told it to log errors to a file (i.e not to stop) but I'm still getting the alert.
I have Photoshop 6 and am trying to convert my company logo over to CMYK from RGB. The problem: I have it exactly the way I want it (colors) and try to switch it over and the color green in my logo is not the color I need.
This is probably a hoary old subject but I've found surprisingly little help via Google, etc. I just finished creating the background for a large map, with over a dozen RGB layers, most with masks, a number of adjustment layers and some alpha channels. I've heard that for CMYK output it's best to work in RGB and convert to CMYK at the last minute, and colour correct in CMYK. That made sense to me for a number of intuitive reasons, but now I'm writing up the metadata and I want to give factual reasons to do this, not just my assumptions.
Obviously file size is one. It took 5 minutes to open or save this RGB file, CMYK could have taken 33% longer. Can anyone tell me how the math is done in PhotoShop? I'm wondering about the blending of all those layers with different blending modes, transparency, adjustment layers etc. In my map each pixel must have gone through a dozen or more math operations.   Will RGB, with it's 255 levels, be more accurate than CMYK with its 100 levels, or is the math all done in double precision and rounded at the end, or is the math all done in LAB or some other colour space?
Also, I recall encountering some PhotoShop operations that were greyed out in CMYK. I tried to discover them today on a test file but drew a blank. Can anyone think of any? Any other pros and cons to RGB over CMYK? Andy PS: This forum software is unbelievable. Hard to believe Adobe would have something so clunky. Like they're actively discouraging the use of their forums.
There is a photo that I've downloaded from the internet that I'm printing and using for a class project. It was supposed to be Black & White, but when I first printed it, it looked sepia. Â My teacher suggested I add a Black and White adjustment layer, but since the photo was originally in Gray scale, I needed to make it RGB to do that. Once I did, the Black & White adjustment layer made the photo Black & White. Â Since I want to ultimately use the photo printed, I was thinking it would make sense to make it CMYK. When I try to make that change, Photoshop says it will discard the Black & White adjustment layer. Does that mean it will go back to looking like sepia when I print it? Does it even make a difference if I change the mode to CMYK for printing? Â Also, is it better to wait and add the Black and White adjustment layer only after I've made all other adjustments as the last step before printing. Or better to do it right away so I know what I'm working with when it's Black & White? Â Finally, is it best to wait and add type only once all the adjustments have been made to the photo? Does type lose any resolution when it gets merged into other layers?
I have a many layered PSD. The tab says RGB/8/CMYK? I didn't think you can mix color space?  Now the big question. Any way to determine which layer is CMYK? I'd like to convert it or remove it? It could have been a placed PDF?
I just downloaded a St. Patrick's day background from i Stock Photo. Nice vibrant green. We all know when converting to CMYK from RGB, there is a color shift but this is pretty dang dramatic. Any basic tips on getting some of that vibrant color back after converting?
I have used the digital color meter in apples os to find rgb colors in a image. I was trying to find one that would give me the closest cmyk equvelent to the web color on my clients site.  The problem is that i used a hex value in Photoshop to create the colors on a bizcard. but all of them came out darker that desired. This is the second time it has happened. I am starting to believe that hex values and cmyk are not friends.
I do not have 500+ dollar for a new screen. I own a LG 2750 that was as close to an apple monitor ad i could see (compared with the naked eye and some gradients as a baseline). This monitor makes everything look brighter than it is so i compensat for that by making things slightly brighter than what my eye preceves is right. My othe screen is its opposite, making every thing darker. Â This why i was needing a meter that would allow me to see the cmyk formula for the pixel i am hovering over. I would also wnat it to tell me whether this was a already a native cmyk formula (native to its range) or if it was just a closest estimation.
I am trying to create a header for my e newsletter in Photoshop. I want to put the logo on top of a background of the same color as my logo. I have the CMYK ref for the logo, and this looks fine when I print it out. However, when viewed online or just on the computer - the background red is slightly brighter than in print.
I have tried using an RGB converter to change CMYK to RGB but this hasn't done anything.
I recently photographed a set of pastels in raw. The body of work has been reviewed and the final color balance has been approved by the artist. I now need to export the images from their raw files to CMYK. to provide for offset printing. Adobe provides a number of options. I am completely lost on the options to select.  The Source Space is Adobe RGB 1998  The Color Space Conversion Options are:  Conversion Options  Engne:
   Adobe (ACE)    Microsoft ICM    Adobe CMM  Intent:
   Perceptual    Saturation    Relative Colorimetric    Absolute Colorimetric  Selections with Selection Boxes
   Use Black Point Compensation    Use Dither  And, of course there is a CMYK Set of selection options that I assume are based on the paper the printer will use.  Do you have a recommendation on the Engine, Intent, Black Point, and Dither.
I am looking to produce a print job in Five colours, CMYK plus a pantone colour. Is there a way to get Photoshop to generate or support a 5 colour file. an extra channel isn't regonized as an extra colour by quark express. At the moment the current answer is two tiffs over the top of each other with the upper set to over print, but this is a little clumsy!
i just designed a flyer in RGB and when i try to convert it for print in CMYK the colors become very dull......it might be my color settings - i dont know ?
I have designed a CD cover for my band that we will have professionally printed. I'm now told that having designed the whole thing in Photoshop using RGB, that it needs converting to CMYK in order that it prints out properly at the Cd Printing firm.
I have found the "image>mode>CMYK colour" function, but when I click it, it makes the whole image really dull and lifeless.
I am running an old Photoshop 5.0 LE on XPI have a accepted manuscript with TIFF figures in RGB. My editor requires me to convert the TIFFs to CMYK. I have found many instructions on the web for mac environments, but i am no longer in a mac environemnt with this job.Any tips on converting RGB TIFF files to CMYK TIFF files in Windoes XP?
I have a background layer in Photoshop (CS2) that needs to be converted to a spot color. I have tried to select the channels and adjust them that way (yes, the entire image needs to be all the same color, with lighter and darker highlights and shadows), but can't seem to adjust them just be selecting them.
i have always used a designer to come up flyer designs for events. They all go for commercial printing. Thing is when i try and design something in cmyk, the colours always go slightly dull, but yet when my designer does the design in cmyk the colours remain bright.
i convert an image from rgb to cmyk to be printed i loose alot of my brighter colors...namely blues....i know these rich colors can be printed...(i see them all the time on flyers and magazines)...so what can i do to keep these colors...
My online printing outsource made a postcard containing my image and it came out about 1-1/2 stops too dark. When I questioned this I was advised as follows: "For best prediction of color output on a 4 color offset press, please compare your CMYK percentages with an industry-standard Pantone Process guide.">>This seems strange since a color image will have numerous different percentages of cmyk. I must be missing something. My friend who has the Pantone guide wants me to specify a Pantone number for use in comparing the image. I don't see how this can work for the same reasons (different colors, different percentages).>>The easiest solution I can think of is simply to brighten the image the next time I order postcards from this printer.>>
I'm converting images for print. I converted my raw RGB JPG files to CMYK tiff files. The converted pictures look fine in photoshop and windows picture viewer. When I import them in Quark my pictures colors show up very distorted.
