ericosmosNEW Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 I don‘t know if anyone has had experience with this yet… I want to import a picture/graphic into Designer (for lettering and other vector based stuff) which I have deliberately converted from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop with a specific ICC profile and separation settings. So my question is: Will Designer retain all the color data of the pic/graphic down the line? Or will it mess with the colors in any way? I know this is very specific, but I think it is important especially for prepress purposes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 The ICC profile of imported images will be converted to the document's profile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted June 20, 2021 Author Share Posted June 20, 2021 Ok, and when I have the document‘s profile set to the same ICC profile. Here it gets interesting, because in Photoshop I can customize the cmyk settings (like separation type >gcr or ucr…) which I can’t in any Affinity App as of now. so what happens to my customized color separation mode in this scenario? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashf Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 I believe even though you use a custom CMYK profile, it still is a CMYK file with a color profile. So Affinity will treat it as a regular CMYK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 Is there a way for Designer and Publisher to keep all cmyk numbers of the imported picture (that has a cmyk profile embedded)? In InDesign this is called “preserve numbers”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericosmosNEW Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share Posted June 21, 2021 Just to reiterate, the one thing I would change in my custom cmyk (Using a ICC profile provided by the printer as the basis) is choosing the UCR color separation method instead of the default GCR method. So I am wondering if this would be preserved when importing it into Designer and Publisher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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