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I finally saw why my greens looked like mud in print
I was comparing a poster I designed on screen to the printed version from a shop in Nashville last week and the forest green was straight up brown. Turns out I had been working in RGB the whole time even though I thought I set it to CMYK. Has anyone else had a specific color that just never survived the conversion?
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uma8967d ago
Oh wow, that exact thing happened to me last year with a deep purple I was using for a band poster. I read somewhere that RGB has a wider color range than CMYK, so bright greens and blues just sort of fall apart when you convert them. I swear my forest green turned into a swampy mess too, it's so frustrating. Did you have to go back and change all your color swatches for future projects or just fix that one file?
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mila_jones397d ago
@uma896 yeah the swatches thing is a whole mess. I learned the hard way that if you're working in RGB and then switch to CMYK, your bright colors just die. I ended up having to redo all my swatches from scratch because the default ones in the program looked fine on screen but printed like garbage. The forest green thing is real too, I had a lime green that turned into this weird olive brown color on paper. Now I just keep a separate CMYK palette and never trust what I see on my monitor. It's annoying but saves so much time in the long run.
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