What is cmyk in Photoshop?

Answer 1

"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".

Answer 2

Color 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.

Answer 3

CMYK 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.)

Answer 4

CMYK stands for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-BlacK