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"CMYK" stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black (a "K" is used partially because the letter appears in the word "Black", but primarily because using "B" could cause the uneducated to think it stands for "Blue"). The term "CMYK" is used in the print manufacturing industry to indicate a type of printing where various intensities of each of the 4 colors are used to achieve the final printed product. The most common alternative to CMYK is "RGB" (Red, Green, Blue), which is also used to achieve a final visual product, although the (current, but possibly changing) industry standard for physically printed material (books, magazines, etc.) is CMYK. RGB is more commonly used for digital images. Generally speaking, the CMYK format is visually more dull and often appears more desaturated. For example, if a designer were to convert an RGB image to CMYK, the pertinent color profile settings in Photoshop would attempt to match the colors in the image as closely as possible, but it is likely that the image would appear less "rich" or "vibrant".
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 12y agoColor Properties:
C yan
Magenta
Yellow
BlacK
whereas RGB is:
Red
Green
Blue
Use CMYK colors only for professional print when you need to send file to professional printing company and it is good idea to ask them how to send files, in which color mode and format.
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∙ 12y agoCMYK stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black inks (the K stands for black so as not to confuse it with the word "blue"). Those 4 colors are used on printing presses to print in combination to make up full-color photos and images.
On printing presses, there is a printing plate and corresponding ink well for each color.
If you were printing a color photo of a yellow banana on paper with a printing press, for example, the printing plate for yellow would be made in such a way that it allows a lot of yellow ink in the ink well to stick to it only in the area of the banana image on the plate. The ink on the plate gets transferred to the paper. The other three colors' printing plates will allow only a little of their colors to be printed on the banana photo area because the banana is mostly yellow.
In Photoshop, if the image(s) contained in the document you are working on are destined for a printing press (or a minority of desktop printers), you must make sure the document is in CMYK color mode before you send it to the printer. To change a Photoshop document to CMYK color mode, select from the main menu at top (Image > Mode > CMYK color) . The CMYK color mode will ensure that the device that makes the printing plates can figure out how much of each color to put where on each color's printing plate. If you leave the image in the common RGB color mode, the printer's software will convert it to CMYK mode, but it will do it incorrectly in such a way that your image will probably have a faded look when it is printed.
(RGB color mode is the correct mode for images destined for the Web or otherwise displayed on a computer screen, and for images destined for most desktop printers. Always check the desktop printer's manual to be sure about the color mode required. If you don't have access to a manual, do some tests by printing RGB and CMYK versions of the same photos and see which color mode looks more correct on the printed version.)
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∙ 14y agoCMYK stands for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-BlacK
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How do you make an image of particular for print out using adobe photoshop?
First check resolution from Image - Image Size, then convert to CMYK colors from Image - Mode - CMYK
How do you convert CMYK colors to TPX pantone?
This is a complicated process. To begin, TPX in Pantone stands for Textile Paper Extended. These colors are meant for printing on fabric. When one has a CMYK image in Photoshop the colors can not just be converted. The only way to incorporate spot color (Pantone) into a rasterized CMYK image is as an extra plate, or spot color channel in Photoshop. One can also create a monotone, duotone or tritone from a CMYK image. To do this the image can not remain in CMYK mode. The process is much easier to do in a vector file. Using the eye dropper or color picker tool in Photoshop one can measure the amount of cyan, magenta, yellow and black in a specific area. Using the swatches palette open the appropriate Pantone library, find the desired color and measure the CMYK content in the same manner. This process will reveal the CMYK equivalent for that specific color.
Why isn't Photoshop color working?
I bet you have your default format set to bitmap or black and white. The format must be either RGB or CMYK.
Can photoshop cs2 change rgb color to cmyk color?
ANSWER----Follow the instructions given blow to change RGB color to CMYK color in photo shop CS2 ---1) Open photo shop CS2 ---> 2) make a new document (or open the existing one) --->3) Go to Image ---> 4) Mode ---> 5) CMYK Color -------> Finishnow check your document, you will see your document color has been changed from RGB color to CMYK Color.... EndsSo enjoy with CMYK colorsHope it helpsCheers--------------------------------
How do you convert a DIC color to a Pantone color?
If you want to convert a DIC color to a Pantone color, you must calcuate the CMYK value inside a graphics program such as Photoshop. Once you have the CMYK value you can convert the color.
What is an RGB document?
RGB is color model and is suitable for screen. All colors in RGB are made from 3 primary colors Red, Green and Blue. There are also other color models like CMYK which is suitable for print. You can convert RGB to CMYK and vice versa in Photoshop.
What happens when you convert RGB to CMYK?
The underlying color model in Photoshop is neither RGB nor CMYK but LAB. It has the widest gamut, which means it can hold more color values than any other model. Of the two other models, RGB has more color values than CMYK does. When you convert from RGB to CMYK, the program first "maps" the RGB values into the LAB colorspace. It then maps the LAB values into the CMYK colorspace. Now, for REAL entertainment...take a pure RGB blue, or a pure RGB green, and attempt to map it into CMYK colorspace. It doesn't work at all. Red maps fine, but the other two go straight to hell.
Digital Offset Printing?
Adobe Photoshop is the best tool to use in case of digital image correction and editing. For use of images in digital offset printing be sure that your image is in print mode (CMYK) so that the colors will separate properly as in the case of offset printing. Helpful hint: only convert the image to CMYK when you are nearly finished editing the image for print- that way you have more access to the tools in your image editing software such as Photoshop.
What is the difference between pantone cmyk ec cmyk up and cmyk PC?
PC = process coated ec = euro coated
What is the CMYK for Sepia?
sepia cmyk 0%, 60%, 81%, 63%
When was CMYK - EP - created?
CMYK - EP - was created on 2010-05-28.
What are the cmyk colours of the spanish flag?
The dominant colors are red and yellow in the following CMYK delineations.Red: CMYK (%) 0-90-80-5Yellow: CMYK (%) 0-15-95-0There is also the seal of the Kingdom of Spain, which has numerous colors on it.
