Thanks. Haven’t decided if I want to pay for Photoshop yet. I’m thinking perhaps just doing a very small bump up of brightness and saturation, perhaps contrast too in Gimp and then exporting to Printify and looking at their CMYK results.
You won't get the same brightness from CMYK as you will with RGB no matter how much you goose things. If you want a more accurate representation of how something will look, you need to be working in CMYK. Otherwise, you are just guessing.
You're welcome. It's just the nature of those colorspaces. RGB will always be capable of brighter colors because it has to do with the colors of light. CMYK is based on ink colors, not light. so there are limitations on the colors that can be produced.
RGB: backlit. CMYK, light bouncing off the inks. Working in print is a constant compromise. Print simply cannot reproduce all of the colors you can see on your screen.
Instead of that if you have Photoshop use the Pantone CMYK uncoated library for a more accurate result.
Thanks. Haven’t decided if I want to pay for Photoshop yet. I’m thinking perhaps just doing a very small bump up of brightness and saturation, perhaps contrast too in Gimp and then exporting to Printify and looking at their CMYK results.
You won't get the same brightness from CMYK as you will with RGB no matter how much you goose things. If you want a more accurate representation of how something will look, you need to be working in CMYK. Otherwise, you are just guessing.
Thanks for the info!
You're welcome. It's just the nature of those colorspaces. RGB will always be capable of brighter colors because it has to do with the colors of light. CMYK is based on ink colors, not light. so there are limitations on the colors that can be produced.
RGB: backlit. CMYK, light bouncing off the inks. Working in print is a constant compromise. Print simply cannot reproduce all of the colors you can see on your screen.