If you paint, you will know that if you mix together the closest-to-primary red, blue, and green you can find, will you get black? Not really you get a dark muddy brown mess.
#CONVERT RGB IMAGE TO CMYK IN ILLUSTRATOR PLUS#
It is, in modified form, the color wheel you learned about in primary school where red plus blue equals purple and you need to mix yellow and blue to get green.
Black is the total absence of color.ĬMYK is the color of traditional 4-color process printing. If all three elements of a pixel are at their maximum value, you see white. In this system, red plus green plus blue give you white. RGB is the color of physics and of your computer monitors. If you are going to print the image, work in CMYK in Illustrator and RGB in Photoshop. If you will only be using the image for the Web, work in RGB. If all you really want from me is an answer, I can give you a short general rule (but ‘general rules’ always have loopholes, so you still might want to read the article!) The two color modes in question are always RGB and CMYK, even though Photoshop can also create grayscale, Lab Color, Indexed, and bitmap images. I love Photoshop and Illustrator and I love designing but, talking about color modes and how colors are computed is a bit like taking a course on car repair when all you want to do is drive the car! I don’t promise to be able to make this a fascinating blog post, but the information really is important. I thought that this month, I would try to tackle the issue-and hopefully not make your eyes glaze over in the process! “Which color mode should I use when designing?” is a question I have seen over and over recently.
This is an excerpt of a longer post available to members of The Textile Design Lab.
#CONVERT RGB IMAGE TO CMYK IN ILLUSTRATOR HOW TO#
Each month Sherry London brings The Textile Design Lab an in-depth post on how to improve our design process by using technology to its fullest capacity.
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