Thanks for the useful info David.
They're being printed commercially (but not on a press) and when I asked
the fellow at the printer he said, with some hesitation, that the images
should be in CMYK. If an RGB workflow is standard as you suggest,
however, the eventual conversion must not be too damaging to the
appearance of the image, so (if my screen understood these things) I
should be OK doing the adjustments in RGB.
Thanks for your help,
Adam
David Mann wrote:
What are you printing them with? I'd just use RGB unless it's going
to a press, and even then the pre-press people would probably make a
better job of converting and handling CMYK.
If you're using a desktop printer, use RGB all the way. The printer
driver internally converts from RGB to whatever the printer needs for
its collection of ink colours.
I'm not sure what happens to colour management when you convert to
CMYK... all of the working colour spaces I have are RGB.
- Dave
On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Adam McKenty wrote:
Color management, yay! (not).
I'm going to be printing a bunch of scans, which need some adjusting
in PS. My limited knowledge suggests that it would be better to
tweak the images in RGB, then convert them to CMYK for printing
(since the monitor doesn't accurately display CMYK images, so I
might be tweaking them in the wrong direction if done in CMYK). On
the other hand, if the conversion to CMYK /does/ substantially
change the color values of the image, then perhaps I should adjust
in CMYK...
Can I assume that the shoddy on-screen appearance of the CMYK images
is because of the screen's poor handling of CMYK colours, and that
when they are printed they'll look (roughly) like the RGB ones do on
screen?
Any thoughts?
Adam
