sisdsigns Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 I'm working on a book cover that will be sent to a printer, and they requested that we use CMYK color. When I switched the file over to that particular setting it completely changed the color on everything and I can't get it back to where it was. it seems the deeper/brighter shades don't show up. The printer told us that possibly our monitors aren't set up to use CMYK correctly. Is there a way to set it up? Quote
Alfred Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 25 minutes ago, sisdsigns said: it seems the deeper/brighter shades don't show up The CMYK gamut (range of colours) is very much smaller than the RGB gamut, so if you design in RGB and then switch to CMYK you will inevitably lose the brighter shades — most notably orange and green, but also blue. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
sisdsigns Posted July 23, 2021 Author Posted July 23, 2021 Okay so there's no way to avoid that or have more shades? Quote
Alfred Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 Not if you’re sticking to CMYK process colours. You would need to use spot colours (e.g. Pantone) for the out-of-gamut shades. Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.5.1 (iPad 7th gen)
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