CMYK QUESTION

[Josh Conley]

I would suggest talking striaght to the individuals that are printing your cards for you. Whenever there has been a conversion on any of the RGB files to CMYK I have had some color darkening occur, but if you just want to play it very safe use CMYK from the beginning so you know for sure what colors you are going to get.

[Dutch Dremann]

Create, design, etc., in RGB then convert.

Dutch

[BLUDVLZ]

Cindy,

A good little tip when designing in RGB ('cause basically you have to in order to use all the cool filters...) is to work with a CMYK preview.

To do this, open your RGB file, and then hit Ctrl + Y to toggle the CMYK preview. You'll still be able to use all the filters, but all you'll see is the CMYK results on screen. This will better allow you to see the color changes before you actually go to press.

[Cindy Singleton]

Thank you BLUDVLZ! I'll do that. I do need some filters for this. So when I go to save this as a jpeg, I just switch the mode to CMYK and save?

~Cindy

[Thee_DarkOverLord]

I just switch the mode to CMYK and save?




Yep, I would save as a copy though, incase you want to make changes to the card. Keep one for print in a flat cmyk, and one for updates or corrections as rgb with layers.