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Trish
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 Posted - 02/11/2002 : 10:21:11 [Permalink]
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Ah, well, RGB only applies to the monitor, CMYK applies to the printed material. If you don't switch from RGB to CMYK on your file before printing your color comes out funny.
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Snake
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Posted - 02/11/2002 : 20:46:13 [Permalink]
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Ah, well, RGB only applies to the monitor, CMYK applies to the printed material. If you don't switch from RGB to CMYK on your file before printing your color comes out funny.
I guess you are talking about computers! I don't know anything about that. Someday, ha ha, but not now!
I was talking about color printing in photography (on an enlarger). Where the primary colors and mixing them create completely different situations than with pigment. What is it, Magenta, Yellow....oh, I'm too tired and hungry to think now. As I said, I've never printed in color, just know a bit perhaps I used the wrong term.
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Trish
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 02/12/2002 : 13:42:53 [Permalink]
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CMYK = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black
In the CMYK color scheme Yellow is opposite Cyan, and Magenta opposite Green.
RGB = Red, Green, and Blue
Green + Blue = Cyan
Red + Blue = Magenta
Green + Red = Yellow
Doesn't really fit the color wheel and working with pigments. I think you can see how going from screen RGB to print CMYK without resetting the color scheme would give some really odd coloring, mostly resulting in muddy colors. RGB is an additive system and CMYK is subtractive. That will take a bit of explaining, or I can find a website if you prefer.
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Snake
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Posted - 02/12/2002 : 17:07:51 [Permalink]
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CMYK = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black
In the CMYK color scheme Yellow is opposite Cyan, and Magenta opposite Green.
RGB = Red, Green, and Blue
Green + Blue = Cyan
Red + Blue = Magenta
Green + Red = Yellow
Doesn't really fit the color wheel and working with pigments. I think you can see how going from screen RGB to print CMYK without resetting the color scheme would give some really odd coloring, mostly resulting in muddy colors. RGB is an additive system and CMYK is subtractive. That will take a bit of explaining, or I can find a website if you prefer.
The last day of class, a copule of weeks ago, we saw a film and mixing the magenta and ....what ever else and getting the secondary color that didn't fit with the pigment wheel. (Sorry, my brain is not in gear, ha ha. Have to run to class now.) But my teacher kept saying after 30 years of teaching he still can't comprehend that the colors that mix in the light scale are so different then paint. I'm paraphrasing, I'm sure he was more precise. Must run!
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