CMYK and RGB

[warby1212]

I know this has been answered before but I can't seem to locate it. I have an image that has nice bright colours in RGB but the image needs to be printed. In CMYK it appears much flatter on the screen. Will it print out flat or bright?

Thanks for any help

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[SPYDERIX]

What you see on screen in CMYK mode is pretty much what you will get when it's printed. Your computer does it's best to color match the output on your screen to what you will see when it's printed. There will be some variation. When you use your colors double click on color on the tools palette and you will see 2 small boxes near the ok button. One is for the print color. You should always make sure that that doesn't have an exclamation mark beside it otherwise you won't get an acurate on screen representation of the printed version.

The fact that the colors are much more mute on screen is to do with the fact that the 2 processes are completely different. Your screen only works in Red Green Blue (RGB) whereas printing is normallying done in Cyan Magenta Yellow and Black (CYMK).

Hope this helps and is clear!

NATE

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[warby1212]

Hi Nate,
Thanks for that. One more piece of the puzzle for me. I'm using Photoshop 5.5 at the moment, which doesn't seem to have the print colour check box. Can I ask then, my customer designed a business card in rgb colors. Is there some trick to getting a good match in cmyk? What tool is best?

Cheers Stephen

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[yoderman94]

When your in the color palette, you can take and go to the pantone swatches, that would be the most accurate color. As you can specify to the printer that it should be printed in that color. But if your doing that, I would suggest using Indesign or Illustrator. As much as I love PS it does have its place, as does Illustrator and Indesign.

 

[warby1212]

Thanks for that, I guess I've still got a lot to learn

Cheers Stephen

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