waltonmendelson Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Is there a way to create K-only art? That is only K has values from 00 to 100. Middle gray would be C00 M00 Y00 K50; 100% black would be C00 M00 Y00 K100; etc. Walton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltonmendelson Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 I should have added, this should read as K-only in a PDF. Walton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 Have you tried: Creating a CMYK document. Setting the color to K-100 Black. Then never change the Color, except by changing the Opacity. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltonmendelson Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 Thank you . . . yes, I set up a file in CMYK. I set the color to C00 M00 Y00 K50 and made a swatch of middle gray. Yes, when I check the result, the PDF is C00 M00 Y00 K50. But how to convert (I should have said convert, my bad) existing images to K-only values? Walton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 14, 2023 Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 minute ago, waltonmendelson said: But how to convert (I should have said convert, my bad) existing images to K-only values? If your existing image is JPG, TIFF, or PNG: Try creating a new document (CMYK), and Placing the old image into it. Then you should have a K-Only button on the Context Toolbar. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waltonmendelson Posted February 14, 2023 Author Share Posted February 14, 2023 A big thank you! I never saw the K-only button. In Photoshop, this is quite a bit more involved. Bravo to Affinity and, again, a big thanks to you, Walt. Walton walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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