Kid_Fisto opened this issue on Apr 23, 2006 · 4 posts
Kid_Fisto posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 8:51 AM
I've just rendered the first full-res 4200x4200 image for the calendar submission, when I noticed that TIF is standardly in RGB, not CMYK. Does anyone know how to Convert An Image to CMYK??
I've done just about everything i can think of in photoshop (i've got elements 2.0, so don't tell me stuff about CS2!) and I Can't get adobe to help me because i'm not on their "Deluxe Expert Support Group" :b_rolleyes:
Can anyone help me?
kallikru posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 12:50 PM
I guess it may depend on the version of PS you have, but try 'Image -> Mode -> CMYK color' to convert the image, if available in your version. Then save it as tiff.
Kalli
ligt posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 1:10 PM
if you want to participate for the calender, you don´t need to convert as yet. first you send them in 600*600 and if chosen you go from thereon. pannhyb noticed that there are possibilities to do so. so maybe you can ask her. good luck,
monica
peapodgrrl posted Tue, 25 April 2006 at 1:31 AM
Photoshop, as Kallikru, will do the job and you can transfer it to CMYK.
However, this is important to remember: CMYK will wash your colors out, so you may have to compensate and add some saturation. I find that if I saturate about nine percent, I'll get as close as possible to the RGB version. You never really do have the same result with CMYK, because it never looks as vibrant and luminescent as RGB does. Cyan in particular looks flat, and reds tend to go orangey, so you might want to slide your reds over to the blue a little to compensate. It is one of my pet peeves about large scale printing, I think CMYK is mud next to RGB, and I cannot fathom why they don't standardize printing to RGB.
Best of luck to you :)