I have created some vector drawings for the web or electronic viewing only. I now need to convert some of this stuff for print and when I convert from RGB to CMYK, the colours lose their vibrancy. and when I'm converting, I no longer have the picker to work with.
Can someone help? ... please and thanks.
Thanks.
Cowtoon said:I now need to convert some of this stuff for print and when I convert from RGB to CMYK, the colours lose their vibrancy.
What do you mean by "picker"?
The colour picker is a tool that allows you to pick any colour on the screen (and outside), but if the colour it lands on (for picking) is already RGB, it will take is as, even though you started out with CMYK as your preference. The picker tool looks like an an eye-dropper. I've never run into this problem before.
Cowtoon said:The colour picker is a tool that allows you to pick any colour on the screen (and outside), but if the colour it lands on (for picking) is already RGB, it will take is as, even though you started out with CMYK as your preference.
One exception to the rule (there may be several but this one I know) is powerclipped objects, which will take the color model from the fill of the container, or if there's no fill; from the default color model of the document.
Yes ... and they've made the colour picker smarter which, is mostly a good thing.
btw ... There's some interesting reading in the responses here, I'm not all knowing, esp. when it comes to print. My experience is limited and there's always been at least one thing that challenges the outcome.
At this point in time, the no. of prints don't warrant offset, however, the printers use a printer that uses CMYK, so I'm still kind-a hooped. Many of the colours as mentioned earlier, had a washed out look. Moving foward, I'd like to prevent this. From what I've read, I don't seem to have the full selection of colours, using CMYK as I do with RGB.
Do you think it would help (from the printer's perspective) to save as an illustrator file). There were also issues with CD's shadows, which had to be corrected. Fortunately, I was charged for that bit of tweaking.
Perhaps there's a goofy (yet useful) little tool out there that will give me the cmyk values for a colour I chose (assuming it's available in the cmyk spectrum).
Ok ... found a tool that picks up the colour and tells you the hex, html, reg, cmy, hsv values wherever you hover your mouse. It's called pixie. The same site has a tool that also recognizes fonts. The site is nattyware. Perhaps you've already heard of it. I'll see if it'll work for for what I'm after.
Apologies ... was wrong about the font tool ... it simply lists all the fonts you have.
Cowtoon said:At this point in time, the no. of prints don't warrant offset, however, the printers use a printer that uses CMYK, so I'm still kind-a hooped. Many of the colours as mentioned earlier, had a washed out look. Moving foward, I'd like to prevent this. From what I've read, I don't seem to have the full selection of colours, using CMYK as I do with RGB.
Printing is almost always CMYK, which limits what can be printed to the CMYK gamut.The RGB gamut is wider and gives colors on screen that can not be printed CMYK. You can still, if you like, use RGB in your designs but then I suggest you make sure you have appropriate color management settings (if you don't know, the defaults will probably do) and enable the "Proof colors" function (little monitor icon in Status Bar). This will give you a screen representation of how it will look in print.Since this will limit what you see to the CMYK color space, you might as well (or even preferably) work in CMYK from the start, unless your design is going to be used for the web (and in which case the web colors and in print will look different, as you've already found out).
Please read my argumentation for working in CMYK in this thread.