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ATTN: Anybody with graphic-creation for print experience

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apinomus

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I designed a business card in Photoshop that I want to get printed. But when I submit it to the company, they're saying its coming out looking gray when really it should be brown-ish tints. Obviously they're printing in CMYK color space.

So I figured, ok, can't I just set Image > Mode > CMYK and then it represents accurately inside Photoshop? I set it to that and everything looks fine inside PS. Yet when I export it as TIFF/EPS, everything appears gray how they say it does. Even so, if I export PNG it looks correct!

What am I doing wrong?

PNG <-- This is how I want it to look
TIFF <-- But comes out looking like this
PSD <-- Original PSD I created and export from
 
Took a look at your PSD file in PS CS2 and the background color is definitely set to gray and not the brown your PNG file shows. Given your PSD, the TIFF looks exactly as it should.

Make sure the PSD is built correctly. A problem with that file is the only thing I can see from what you've presented here.
 
Any idea how I should setup my color profiles locally to view the color space as it should appear? I'm not too familiar with that realm of things.
 
the quick solution may be to just find a color swatch with the CMYK formula for the color you want and have the printing company fix it on their end. That way, no matter what you're screen (or theirs) looks like, the color on the press will be the one you want.
 
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