Converting Images to CMYK for Print Publication

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• Conversion from RGB to CMYK for print causes darkening and loss of detail on the page.

  I work in CS5 to create figures in a very wide range of colors. I use filters and adjustment layers to achieve the desired effects, so my images are degraded and high contrast design. I usually only work for the web, so I've never had need to convert my images in a CMYK working space. I started to make prints of some of my work, and I noticed I lose not only in detail, but dynamism as well. A lot of the darker areas are together burrs, and some of the areas of light contrasted against dark look less intelligible than when I created it on the screen.

  My first attempt at printing has been at a Staples, that could be part of the problem. I had saved in CMYK TIFF and JPEG files. TIFF files looked terrible, but the JPEG has a little more clarity in printing. One of my TIFF files displayed on the computer of Staples like being completely tense and in grayscale, although it was happening on my own camera.

  Any advice would be greatly appreciated, because I'm trying to learn everything I can about this topic. Thank you!

  Don't not bither with CMYK for any shape so "home printing". Their printers work no any different from your own inkjet and exoect images come directly from digital cameras, etc. And are calibrated accordingly. Otherwise, you have a lot of reading to do on color, color grading, etc. of the range management.

  Mylenium

• Need CMYK for printer... but the msg «document uses space mix CMYK...» "concerning

  Hi all

  I need to create PDF output which is the printer CMYK.

  I thought I did everything correctly until I got this message that was generated when I chose to export (in PDF format), "the document uses space CMYK. Are converted to RGB in interactive PDF files. To avoid color variations, click Cancel and choose Document RGB in the Edit > menu of the space of merger of transparencies. Click OK to continue. »

  So, I think it means that the PDF export is saved in a RGB color space. Is this a correct interpretation? If so, how do I preserve the CMYK color space because it is what needs the printer? Is it still possible or relevant?

  Thank you

  You shouldn't make an interactive PDF for the printer. Choose export and edit drop-down list type to PDF (Print) or use file > Adobe PDF presets > and choose your preset from the list.

• Non-CMYK for printing color separation

  Hello
  This is one of my first posts here - I hope that I do not too bad.

  I checked a few threads here, looking for prospects and has already made a few discoveries but my question remains.
  
  I have done a few trials with a Ricoh printer and am struggling a bit with the reproduction of photographs. The printer, I work with prints a color at the time: Blue (nearby), yellow (very similar to the yellow treatment), rather dark green red (close to Pantone 032), bright and black.
  So far I've used the CMYK color separation (and rather rough halftone), substitute blue and magenta red cyan, but the pictures come out, logically enough, more orange than they should be.
  
  So my question is: you know a way to divide an image into a given set of colors? (here, I guess it would be blue, red, yellow, and the black with the fact that I can print)
  
  Please let me know if you have any ideas!
  Thank you

  If something like this is not a good place to start?

  

• NET gradient transparency of RGB to CMYK for print

  Downloaded a file from RGB gradient mesh. Did not sting lines will appear after the flattening of transparencies and conversion to CMYK also changed the subject. The main thing that changes are the strong points of the object then I manually changed those until I managed to do it look they way had to be (basically add extra lines on the mesh and using white spot on the high brightness and opacity 0 on the edges to have a more natural mix). Then, I tried to dish/pixelation/opening in photoshop - flatten - save as JPEG and nothing worked as when I print (with Roland VS540) it does not come out as it should. Help, please!

  

  Do not use the JPEG to CMYK, which was only intended for RGB. Try to save as format .psd.

  In Bridge > Edit > color settings > choose a > recommended below

  This will synchronize the creative suite settings, as I see that you have customized.

  

• Convert number to Varchar for printing the Type of table in a loop error: PLS-00306:

  Hello

  I am trying to print a number of the Table that I get from a ref cursor But cannot convert the number to Varchar to print. What I'm doing wrong here

  Thank you

  Ken

  OUT_REFCURSOR FETCH BULK COLLECT INTO theTBL_RCRD_ID ;

  So THAT (theTBL_RCRD_ID IS NOT NULL)

  LOOP

  strRCRDID: = TO_CHAR (onTBL_RCRD_ID (indx), "99999");    -This line throws error message

  dbms_output.put_line (strRCRDID);

  INDX: = indx + 1;

  END LOOP;

  • Error: PLS-00306: wrong number or types of arguments in the call to "TO_CHAR.

  Try this...

  strRCRDID: = TO_CHAR (outTBL_RCRD_ID (indx). RCRD_ID, "99999");

• Saving image for printing

  I have this image landscape sunset 3840x2160px 839214 # which is 92dpi and I want to put it inside the eps file and then print it out I would like to save this image in 300 DPI before I import it into the eps file.

  Can someone show me how to do this please.

  Thank you

  sishamDSS wrote:

  You will also need to convert it to CMYK for printing... ?

  Image > Mode > CMYK color

  CMYK conversion is needed to offset printing. Inkjet printers expect RGB data. If the fed CMYK, they will convert just right back to RGB.

  And do not use the picture Mode. Convert to profile to use, once you have given the right CMYK printer profile.

  Despite this, the photos most commonly presented as RGB these days, the final conversion is prepress.

• Is it necessary to convert RGB to CMYK photos if you simply print at home?

  I am new to the creative suite, and I use InDesign for a class presentation. I was told I should convert photoshop images I use RGB to CMYK for printing, but I'm just to the printing house on my little deskjet.

  Second question: if it IS necessary, why make an alert in photoshop by saying 'you are about to convert to CMYK using the "U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2" profile. This can ve not what you intend. "What do that mean and do I just ignore it?

  Thanks in advance for any advice you may have!

  The advice you got was specifically for sending from a project to a CMYK printing press. Conversion to CMYK was the traditional requirement of these tasks, since the days when most of the images were printed and more printed images went to a CMYK press.

  But it has been several years that it was true. Some InDesign workflow can use RGB images if configure you InDesign to convert to CMYK output, or if the digital press will do the conversion. Many House digital printers and newer digital printers are set up to work with RGB images. For example, you do not send CMYK images to the laboratory have printed enlargements and photo books made, you send RGB. As far as your inkjet home goes, it uses different colors as U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) CMYK (some printers use six inks or more), so conversion to CMYK is not even properly correspond with the inks used.

  This is the reason why you see the alert message. It is no longer a world where convert you all images to CMYK for print, if Photoshop is to make sure that it is something you really need to do. Because if you convert to CMYK when you do not need, your images will look worse because CMYK does not provide the number of RGB colors.

• I want to create a new document in Illustrator that I can use for Print and Web - using 2 different colourspaces.

  Is it possible to do?  I need to create a document so that I can export under a high quality CMYK to print and export the same file in RGB jpeg / pdf for web and e-mail use.  What I do need to create the document with 2 different colourspaces, or can I edit / convert the colourspace after that I created and finished the document?  or is it possible simply to select a RGB / CMYK option during export record?

  looking forward to your response!

  Tom

  Tom,

  The best way is to creat and finish the document CMYK for printing, and then save a copy (or avoid something similar and safe save them on the original of the document CMYK) and turn that into a separate RGB for the web and other document.

• How to get back a margin for printing to its original state?

  I have a brochure which has been designed as a default value (page as the first page 1 / 1st line, pages 2-3 in the second line of the tab pages, etc.).  This brochure was then converted to an application for printing, so the appropriate pages lined up and were then saved as layout (and not as available to origin).  Is there a way to recover my original layout?  I would like to export a pdf file in a single page format (opposite to two pages on the same page) is that possible?  Please help! :))

  Is he still single pages, just arranged for the printer, or do you have now both sides of the spread on simple pages twice as wide?

  If you still have individual pages, you can try just dragging them around the pages palette, but it will be difficult to keep track of in CS2 because that page icons show still thumbnails of the content. It would be easier, I think to create a new document of the same size and slide pages in the pages of the first document palette in the window of the new doc document (not the palette). You can drag in the right order and they should be added at the end of each hour, and then delete the original page 1, which must be empty. Import all styles of the original document to make sure that the text does not change (in the palette menu character or paragraph styles choose "load styles").

  If you have no pages of the individual, create a new document with the size of the page and the number of pages, then copy the elements of a document and paste it into the other. Load styles as above.

  Peter

• Is it possible to convert RGB to CMYK images in Photoshop elements 12 or 6 Lighroom?

  Hello

  I am a freelance photographer, asked to produce images in CMYK mode to print. For the type of work that I normally do, Photoshop Elements is good enough. So, I bought not the full program of Photoshop. I can´t seem to find a way to convert my RGB to CMYK files. Someone at - it suggestions on how to do it?

  Grateful for any help.

  Kind regards

  Anna

  Elements has no CMYK support. You need the full Photoshop for this.

  However - you have good CMYK profile for the real press and used paper. If they ask CMYK without specifying exactly what CMYK profile to use, it's a gift: they have no idea of what they are doing. So ask them that.

  In any case, the common nowadays procedure is to present photography as RGB equipment, to be converted to CMYK destination on final export as PDF ready from the program layout (InDesign). This means that the images are placed as RGB in InDesign. In this way the material can be easily reused for press different conditions.

  In other words, if they run a color managed properly the process. There are still some who don't.

  CMYK standards vary around the world. The default value of Photoshop's us Web Coated (SWOP), which is not used anywhere outside America. Here in Europe the most commonly used are ISO Coated (ECI) 300% or Coated FOGRA39.

• How can I change the type of image file to download on a site like walmart or walgreens for printing?

  How can I change the type of image file to download on a site like walmart or walgreens for printing?

  In general, they will accept the image in the format, that it was taken (if it was taken by the majority of cameras or cell phones).  But if so, you have a few options.

  The most simple and integrated solution is Microsoft Paint.  Yes it is from the 1980s, but it still works and changes of a good job for a time.  Just to right click on the photo file, choose open with and choose paint.  Then go to file > save as and save this return as the file type you want it to be (like PNG or BMP or JPG, quality declining in the JPG option).

  If you need more options like changing the quality he uses during conversion, another free option (of the very very many) is Paint.NET, an open source free image editing program. http://www.dotPDN.com/downloads/PDN.html

  There are also programs that can do it in bulk, so you can highlight 300 photos and do convert them all at once.  You can do this for free or with tools like Photoshop.

• How to convert RGB to CMYK images in batches

  Hello

  Can someone explain in a way step by step how to convert RGB to CMYK images batch?

  Thanks in advance

  If you do not want to use Photoshop for the conversion of bact there are several ways, including lots and Image Procesor under the file > controller or file > Scripts of PS.

  However, my preference is to use the script from Russell Brown: Image Processor Pro, via the bridge:

  http://www.russellbrown.com/scripts.html

  Like other similar is transformative image:

  http://www.scriptsrus.TalkTalk.NET/

  Both allow you to make several conversions simultaneously, different sizes and file types and actions running before or after conversion.

• How can I place several smaller images of varying size on one page for printing without losing the original size.  Board contact option to resize my pictures

  Does anyone know how to place several small pictures on a single page, so I can print them out as a rather print over and over again.  I want to maintain the original size of the images that vary somewhat.  I tried to use the option of the Board-contact, but he seems to want to resize my images which unfortunately is of no use to me.  I tried to cut and paste on a new page, but I don't think that it is now the original size.

  Alternative applications sometimes can provide quick and easy results.

  It might be interesting to download the demo version of Photoline: it includes a simple Board-contact option that allows for images to be included without loss of resolution, i.e. the original is left intact and the proportions remain unchanged. Since Photoline also supports documents several pages, all the thumbnails are collected into rows and columns, the user can control and the end result can be exported as PDF.

  -Download the trial of pl32.com

  -Open Photoline, then open the browser (CTRL/CMD (B)

  -Navigate to your folder with the images you want to combine for printing.

  -right mouse click in the thumbnail view, and then select "Create image Catalog.

  -Select the page by Page size

  -under 'Size' define the number of rows and columns (there are here a translation error: "Spalten (COL) / rows (lines)".)

  -Uncheck "scale photos physically." This ensures that the original images are intact and incorporated in full resolution.

  And then click OK.

  Some of the other testing devices until you get a satisfactory result. Then export it to PDF.

• For printing, must I work in RGB or CMYK?

  So they say that I should always work in RGB in Illustrator.  Is this true?

  All my projects are for printing BTW,

  Certainly not. When preparing work for print, you normally deal with CMYK.