Essential Tips Converting RGB To CMYK | The Art Of Printing | Getting Started | Matt Irwin

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Omg this was put up in 2021. After watching this I thought it might be 1997😂.
Firstly don't convert to CMYK then Assign Profile. You shouldn't use Assign Profile like that. Instead use Convert to Profile... And choose the Profile provided. Whilst in the convert menu you can try out different Intents and select the most pleasing result.

Next, don't give up just accepting I can't make it anymore saturated using the saturation slider. You can improve the overall look by adding a little more contrast, a little more saturation, cleaning up specific colours, for those pinks you could take out cyan from magentas.

Finally, "Save as EPS this is the printing format" No No No😢😢. Save As Tiff or PSD or PDF or Jpeg, anything except EPS. That way the profile you spent your time converting too has a chance of being read. 😮

the basic question is if I convert to CMYK and save the file have I lost the original RGB gamut? do I have to keep two master files... one for RGB and one for CMYK?

wow editor you dooo fantastic <3

What app is he using?

Thank you very much for your tutorials. They are very very helpful. I am looking for a tool, action or recommendation to check for shadow/highlight clipping for CMYK images. I have and use one for RGB files, but don't think that I can use it for CMYK files. Thoughts? I'm preparing a print on demand photo project, and laying the groundwork for processing the CMYK files. Thank you. Any guidance is appreciated. Keep up the great contribution.

You didn't actually sort the problem at all. Your pink has lost its colour.

I made business cards for my ministry and they were in RGB, but when they were printed, they were in CMYK and didn't match my original. I was really surprised by how different they looked. I am not studying how to make CMYK look more like RGB and your video helped. Thank you and God bless your channel...

Nikon recommend sRGB for general purposes, but do make Adobe RGB available as a colour space. I'm wondering if that needs to be converted to CMYK EPS or perhaps the conversion might be more accurate. 8 bit seems a bit of a drop too. Or perhaps that's the norm and only the fancy printers go higher or take Adobe RGB direct? Very curious now.

Outlines the basics but didn't really teach much. What if you want to fix out of gamat colors so they are as close to reality as possible eg reproducing a painting in print for a book

Great video thanks. I don't use Photoshop but I do use Krita to show me these differences. I once designed a CD cover knowing nothing and a whole load were printed looking terrible!

Too Much BS and kissing your own ass

Thank you sooo much 🙂

Matt, I want to make my file in printable form and send it to someone far, they'll print it
What should I do so that they'll print it and get the results? ☹️

HI Matt - Perhaps he toughest part is asking the right question... For me, it's what format to send to the magazine. They never know the printer's specific CMYK profile. So, am I still better off sending them generic CMYK from PS, or letting them convert an RGB TIFF to their specific CMYK profile?

Newbie here...I design graphics with hot saturated colors My 1st disappointment was the end result. I'd love to see/learn converting from RBG to CMYK on different substrates..paper vs textiles...Is there any other affordable software to color correct, like Photoshop?

I need to watch this again and stop as it goes to check my printer/computer/camera set up as I can't print exactly what I see on my screen

I sort of understand RGB to CMYK processing (a mapping operation) then printing it on paper and viewing the result. But, switching between two files viewed on an RGB monitor- is the CMYK file going through a conversion back to RGB? Must be, unless you have a CMYK display. And then, when we do soft proofing on an RGB monitor, are we doing a similar thing? I’ll leave my questions on monitor calibration until next time ( my desktop, laptop, and iPad are all calibrated with same x-rite process, all RGB but different panel manufacturers).

why in the first place you change to CMYK please in simple word i know nothing about printing thanks keep teach me PRINTING

Please, anything on pre-press. Specifically colour working spaces and printer profiles.

Good info, thanks. But isn’t more or less the same one does when doing “Proof” in Lightroom - you apply a profile to the photo? (I always enjoy, trying to bring the saturation back to the photos .... grrr).

Thx Matt. I would love to see more about the preparation of images for print.

Thanks Matt. I had no idea about this. Is it that CMYK is inherently incapable of capturing that exact shade of pink, or is it capable, but not from that particular starting shade of pink in the RGB photo? I hope that question makes sense 😕
Also, in a future video can you do a comparison of say the 24-70mm kit lens at 50mm, and a prime 50mm lens? I'd love to see what the differences are between prime lenses and "normal" lenses at the prime focal length.

Love your work Matt. Yes, more please.

Good Advice - But lately I've been having more trouble with LED panels having holes in their colour spectrum...

Thank you - this will be where I start when I get to that stage. I put an image of a macro flower through one of those shop machines just to see the look and it was a total waste of time as all the black colour of the stamens from the flower centre were missing - and it was important for the entire look. This was a shop with staff managing their big machines, so I could see it would be unusable and thought about making small scale handmade cards myself. Now to locate the Hahnmuhle paper I want....oh the joys...

Brilliant Matt. If Covid lockdowns keep you captured in your home studio, your tutorials using Lightroom and PS are a huge bonus for us. I'd imagine live webinars would compensate you for your expertise too! Your approach to light and colour is like a nuance to be learnt. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for the tutorial Matt. One question, I have been doing my own printing for years now, and I do it from Lightroom. Does "soft proofing" essentially do the same thing as you did in Photoshop? Cheers Matt.

Always always want to hear more of the technical side of things from you.

On that subject how do you save your images? I’m looking at buying a Drobo 5n to safely store my stuff instead of random external hard drives

Thanks Matt, another very helpful video

Nice video, id like to get my images into a book, just for personal use so be interested if you shared that process. Cheers.

I need to check with Epson (my model Et-4670 printer) if the printer does the conversion.

Thanks Matt for the lesson. More :)

Good to know at least what too expect in the print. And of course more, Thank-you again.

Print a thousand................ maybe two................. this is good, thanks.

OHHHH NOOOO IT IS MATT. So good to see you tooooo. :)

Absolutely! I never used EPS format though... in your opinion is better that Cmyk direct exchange rather than previewing the rgb with the paper profile for hard proofing ??
Thanks for your amazing skills

Thanks Matt, very insightful!

Of course we'd love to see more! Thanks for the content, Matt!

I thought people would send the image files in as PNG or TIFF instead when sending for printing.

Loved this little tutorial. Can you share more? I've never printed my photos (besides some 8x10) but I would like to, someday, so this is very helpfull! A question though, when we convert to CYMK we are truncating the color space and when we apply the printer profile, we are truncating even further? Or are there other changes?

Thanks Matt, will give this a try when it isn’t midnight and I’m not watching the Tour De France on SBS!

Matt, a friend from our camera club suggested I send my pics for printing as sRGB and as a TIFF, (as opposed to JPG) primarily for the file size, the TIFF is so much bigger. Remember all I'm doing is printing the occasional pic for my wall, not for a book being sold in commercial quantities.