CMYK help (mac)
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- Hewmiri
Hey guys, I'm putting together some of my works for a magazine and they've asked for CMYK Tiff images at 300DPI. I noticed in Preview (as in the image viewer in OSX) the CMYK images look a lot more desaturated than in Photoshop. should I be worried about this?
Thanks.
- honest0
300dpi tiffs are industry standard, tell me your pics aren't 72dpi jpegs?
- HumanMale0
I would say no.
If your happy with it in CMYK in Photoshop you should be fine (providing your colour settings are configured properly!).
Preview is pretty basic.
See if you can see hard proofs too?
- rasko40
how the fuck should we know?
- Hewmiri0
ok, so how it looks in photoshop will be how it will look in print. I should just ignore preview right?
thanks!
- valentim0
cmyk allways look dull when changed from rgb, but you shouldn´t really be worried, unless the colours have changed dramatically, what I would do is try to print them out on a laser just to check if the colour haven´t varied too much, you shouldn´t really relie on you screen for proofing purposes either...good luck
- valentim0
look my good old friend rasko is in a good mood today, how are buddy?
- agentfour0
ok, so how it looks in photoshop will be how it will look in print. I should just ignore preview right?
thanks!
Hewmiri
(May 12 06, 02:51)how it looks when its printed is how it will look when it is printed.
- Mojo0
colour space is the problem. check your colour space settings (google if needed), then do a print yourself and see if it is acceptable (After rgb>cmyk)
- Hoax0
cool kids have rgb printers.
- MrMackem0
Think the name 'Preview" gives us a slight indication of what it does. A quick preview of the file.
Or am i being silly ?
- Hewmiri0
yeah you're being silly - you probably don't use OSX do you?
- Baskerville0
Err. RGB is how a monitor will make an image (because light is additive R+G+B = white) whereas CMYK is how a printer will make an image because printing is a reductive process (C+M+Y+K = very black)
Because the 2 systems are very different it is almost impossible to match colours on screen to a final print. The answer is never trust your monitor completly. Try and calibrate it as well as possible.
In general most colours will be ok from screen to print, watch out for vivid blues and oranges on screen because they will lose a lot of saturation in print.
- Rand0
for mags I set my ps color pref to swopweb-- seems to work well. I always deliver my ads as compressed pdfs--magazine printing isn't good enough to see any difference.