CMYK vs Pantone vs RGB - What's the difference? Why does it matter? When to use each?

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Print Peppermint - Luxury Print Products

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Austin from Print Peppermint gives an overview of the key differences between the RGB, CMYK, and PMS Pantone color spaces.
In order to help our designers and clients we created this 4-Color Process Reference book which displays a list of optimized CMYK color values and when printed acts as a handy tool in referencing on-screen color in real life.
You can download a Free PDF file here:
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/065...
You can print this out at home on your digital printer which, although not perfect, should still act as a good guide for choosing CMYK values inside photoshop or whatever design software you are using.
You are welcome to request a FREE OFFSET PRINTED COPY by sending us your mailing address via email to: info@printpeppermint.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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0:00 - Intro
0:15 - What is RGB color?
0:26 - What is CMYK color?
0:44 - What are PMS Pantone Colors?
0:59 - How does RGB work? / How do screens work? / Additive Color Model
1:30 - How does CMYK work? What is 4-color process printing?
1:51 - What is halftone and how does it work?
2:12 - Subtractive Color Model
2:24 - Why was 4-color CMYK process invented?
2:37 - When should you use CMYK color?
2:48 - Why are my printed colors different than my computer screen?
2:58 - 4-Color Process Reference Guide Book (FREE DOWNLOAD)
3:21 - (Cont) Pantone Spot Colors: Neon / Fluorescent / Pastel / Metallic /
3:40 - PMS Color Palettes in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Affinity Design Software
3:53 - When to use PMS color? Why use PMS colors? Benefits
4:10 - How many PMS colors can be recreated in CMYK?
4:18 - What is Pantone Extended Gamut?
4:32 - Outro - Please Like & Subscribe :)
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Пікірлер: 31

@talnewfield9635 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video. I'm just starting out in the world of graphic design and this video was super helpful!

@tubebuz 2 жыл бұрын

Great explanation to a topic that seems to confuse a lot of people - even some who has been in the business for a while.

@mindsetengineered 6 ай бұрын

Great info, very well explained! Good refresher of the basics!

@g_o_d_esigns Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the free tool! And especially the lesson! Cheers!

@gomatidas8421 Жыл бұрын

Awesome explanation, thanks for showing colour pallets.

@jont1057 9 ай бұрын

Awesome video! Really helps with the nuance of CMYK

@punitgupta8986 7 ай бұрын

Amazing explanation. Really helpful to understand the whole colouring system. Thanks for this one 🎉

@sophiastarotmore2844 Жыл бұрын

That was very helpful, thank you!

@squinonex 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video! This was super helpful :)

@user-fh5gw6cm7i 2 ай бұрын

great video - very informative - thank you for the booklet it is very useful and of high quality. Thanks for explaining cmyk in detail.

@feyzaarslan6434 7 ай бұрын

thank you!! this really helped me with my graphic design class project!

@MOHAMEDHASSAN-fk9jv Жыл бұрын

👍. Thanks for the CMYK colour code file.

@Da_ns 9 ай бұрын

Thank you!!! This helped a lot

@sheep9944 Жыл бұрын

very cool! Thank you!!!

@user-uy8oo3er6z Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the booklet to download, I have the color bridge palette but is good to narrow down the best options to choose.

@user-uy8oo3er6z Жыл бұрын

the CMYK values in your guide are optimised, do you mean that they are an improved variant of the CMYK values provided by pantone bridge? As I see that the values you provide don't match the ones in the pantone guide. Also I just realised that between coated and uncoated the values change as well. Are your CMYK values suitable for both? Thank you in advances for clarifying this :)

@westfield90 3 ай бұрын

Excellent video

@highflyinmayan5051 8 ай бұрын

Cheers mate!

@ferretyluv 5 ай бұрын

What about Avery? They have their own color system. What’s the difference between Avery and Pantone?

@jsa-z1722 2 ай бұрын

👏👏👏

@madirapunzel8799 2 жыл бұрын

♡♡♡

@Printpeppermint 2 жыл бұрын

Make sure to like my newest one too honey :) - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptiIYLal3p2rlX0.html

@BarKeegan Жыл бұрын

Just wondering with Pantone leaving Adobe, could someone make a new Spot colour in one of their design packages for use on a single lithographic plate, and just tell a printer which Pantone you want printed on that plate without having the available Pantone swatches digitally?

@Printpeppermint Жыл бұрын

Yes, the PMS colors are mixed by hand based on the Guidebook proportions from Pantone. The swatches inside design software are a nice convenience but are not necessary.

@BarKeegan Жыл бұрын

@@Printpeppermint Ah, thanks for clarifying that, it felt like there was a lot of drama over this change, but didn’t really seem warranted to me...

@elloh77 7 ай бұрын

I wouldn't spec a pantone color if the client isn't paying for spot color in the job (assuming print method supports it at all). Just because a designer spec's a pantone doesn't mean they're going to get a faithful reproduction of it at print time, especially in the case of a digitally printed product. CMYK and converting / choosing it over RGB: the designer should be asking the print provider what they want in production files. Most modern RIPs will handle the conversion from RGB spaces to process color output just fine, and they'll do a better job of it than creative desktop software will. Similarly for pantone colors, they'll convert to the closest in gamut color without issue. It just may not be as bright and nice as the designer and client expect.

@lasarith2 Жыл бұрын

RGB 16.7 million colours CMYK 16,000 colours, Pantone 1200-1600 ish.

@Printpeppermint Жыл бұрын

Yeah but you can't print RGB or at least not in a way that expresses all those colors. And most of those in-between color differences are not perceivable by the human eye. So I'd say the 1200 palette is more than enough to work with - for print anyways.