CMYK? Confused please help

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  • horton0

    just reading this now and i don't understand why you could possibly need the %'s to add up to 100.. it'd be totally irrelevant as they do not equate to a whole of anything.

    Just to help explain.. think of CMYK percentages as like transparency values in PS, or better yet, buckets of paint..

    ie.. 2 parts of yellow mixed with 1 part magenta (or 100Y, 50M) equals orange. the quantity of paint you end up with is not an issue.

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