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[E equals MC2]

Well my friend is a well established graphic designer but the idiot me would actually want to verify this on ATOT... Let me know if this is true:

Her: when you're doing any web things..everything should be in RGB
Her: if your printing..you should switch to CMYK
Her: you'll get better colors in printing since those are the colors you use to print...vs what you see on screen
Her: RGB will give you more vibrancy on screen..which is what you want
Me: i just did
Me: converted RGB to CYMK on the flowers pic
Me: it looks like ****** afterwarsd
Her: so if you're going to print any of these...use CMYK...it'll look flat on screen but SOO much better in printed materials
Me: all printers use CMYK?
Her: yup
Her: professional...no one EVER uses rgb to print...it just isnt good color
Her: but anything on the web or screen should stay in rbg
Her: rgb
Her: only designers or web people know this..

I have series of beautiful pictures I took I'd like to print... so that means I should actually convert them in PS to CYMK before bringing them to kinkos?

 

[Ika]

If you think about it, standard printers print with CMY inks (not sure what K is...). It does make more sense. RGB is/are the standard color/s for light, so that makes sense for online or onscreen stuff.

 

[Revolution09]

yep, it's true.

 

[EmperorIQ]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Well my friend is a well established graphic designer but the idiot me would actually want to verify this on ATOT... Let me know if this is true:

Her: when you're doing any web things..everything should be in RGB
Her: if your printing..you should switch to CMYK
Her: you'll get better colors in printing since those are the colors you use to print...vs what you see on screen
Her: RGB will give you more vibrancy on screen..which is what you want
Me: i just did
Me: converted RGB to CYMK on the flowers pic
Me: it looks like ****** afterwarsd
Her: so if you're going to print any of these...use CMYK...it'll look flat on screen but SOO much better in printed materials
Me: all printers use CMYK?
Her: yup
Her: professional...no one EVER uses rgb to print...it just isnt good color
Her: but anything on the web or screen should stay in rbg
Her: rgb
Her: only designers or web people know this..

I have series of beautiful pictures I took I'd like to print... so that means I should actually convert them in PS to CYMK before bringing them to kinkos?

only the bolded part isn't true

 

[IamElectro]

Any Graphic Design student that uses our lab always works in CYMK when printing to our plotters. This is something they are taught from day one here. I could argue the point of better print quality as I see items printed daily in both RGB & CMYK and the average person could not tell the difference. We do switch the format to CYMK if we are having color troubles when printing which is not uncommon. But what she is saying is quite logical.

The irony of it all in my opinion is that you are editing/viewing CYMK colors in an RGB enviroment.

 

[Dubb]

real designers work in LAB....


kidding, but yeah, digital color is a complicated thing. what she said is just the begining. a key part of it is just exactly what method you use to convert RGB to CMYK.

 

[chimmytime]

Originally posted by: Aflac
If you think about it, standard printers print with CMY inks (not sure what K is...). It does make more sense. RGB is/are the standard color/s for light, so that makes sense for online or onscreen stuff.

fyi, K is Black.

If you're just going to be printing them at a standard photo lab, you can keep your photos as RGB, because they use RGB colors for some reason. At costco.com you can even download their color profiles for specific Costco locations. Pretty good color preview.

If you're going to a mass printer for brochures, and flyers they'll be using CMYK printers.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

RGB works better on monitors because the screen is natively BLACK, CMYK works better on paper because its natively WHITE. They are opposites. So yea, I'd convert to CMYK (not that I do, but I'm not really that super serious about my pictures.)

 

[ThePresence]

It's true.

 

[EGGO]

It's true, but what you can do instead is use it in RGB and then convert it to CMYK (K is black).

However, if you have a printer like mine, you don't need to convert to CMYK. >

 

[vital]

pic of your friend?

 

[LanceM]

<-- points to what everyone else said.