Converting to CMYK...!

[Ghislaine]

Hi guys and girls,

I use Photoshop to edit my illustrations, pictures and place them in to my PageMaker project. My question is how can I convert my photos, illustrations to the correct colors. If I now place a picture in PageMaker al my colors are changed, blue gets purple and so on... I know it has to do with CMYK. But even when I change it in Photoshop from RGB to CMYK it make no difference. Tried to find it out, reading the help files in both PageMaker & Photoshop but until so far the result is still the same blue stays purple. Help, tips, tutorials and links are more then welcome.

With kind regards,
Ghislaine de Lange - Norway Oslo

 

[viol8ion]

First you should run Adobe Gamma (from your control panel) to calibrate your monitor.

Second, apply a color space to all of your RGB and CMYK images. Edit>Color Settings

If you are in the USA,. standards are:
RGB - Adobe RGB is ideal (wide gamut) for graphics that will be converted to CMYK for press; sRGB is ideal for images that are destined for the web.

CMYK - US Web Coated (SWOP) is pretty safe option. These will help you view the image pretty much as it will print, although nothing is 100% since monitors use the RGB color space and printing uses CMYK (less gamut, many colors are not able to be converted from RGB to CMYK).


When in doubt, deny all terms and defnitions.

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[Nohjekim]

Then make sure that you turn on "Color Matching" in PageMaker and use the same settings that you have selected in Photoshop.

Go to: Preferences/General/CMS Setup.

Mike