I came back to this video to make a warning to all future viewers: This video greatly exaggerates the difference between RGB and CYMK. Yes, CYMK will reduce the contrast and saturation and provide a more pastel colour palette, BUT this effect will only be noticeable on images like the one used in the video, which has VERY bright block colours. Your every day photographs of friends, pets, nature, holidays etc. will be barely distinguishable from the RGB original, unless the photo is high-contrast and oversaturated. Basically ask yourself this: "Are your images as bright and colourful as the one used in this video?" If the answer is no, you have nothing to worry about. I have just transformed dozens of photos of sunny vineyards, grape vines, winemakers, wine caskets, bottles, glasses etc from RGB to CYMK and the difference is laughably minimal. Don't let this video scare you from CYMK.

Bloody hell thank you for this video. I drew an artwork for a client who wanted to print it out, and the colours I used were utterly washed out after they requested that I convert to CMYK for commercial printing. My illustration was a summer themed one, the conversion changed it to a Depression-era piece. You're a lifesaver!!

Warning......before spending too much time, this technique is only half the process. You pay for the rest.

Why isnt there just a tool for converting and keeping the same colours?

You are absolutely fabulous. This did not help me because I am trying to produce a neon green but I learned so very much about color and everything you went over it was absolutely priceless. Thank you so very much.

this really opens your eyes up to a lot of working possibilities, isolating out the channels like this for accuracy is quite a feat that i didn't know photoshop could do in a controlled manner - thanks!

Are their any tutorials better than this??? If anyone knows please let me know. This is the best I've seen so far.

Wow! Awesome demonstration! Thank you Deke :-)

Thank you, this helped even with me using cc in 2018

is ALT + DELETE to fill the layer with the foreground color. Awesome tutorial!

Thank you Deke!

At the end he says the picture is over saturated and won't work, unless you pay for his next tutorial. What bullshit! Like a guy selling a car, and then saying it won't work unless you buy the engine.

Thanks so much, that was a great lesson!

Why all the negative comments? It works as described.

Very Helpful. Thanks :)

You just saved my diploma work. \o|

Yay! Deke! The excellent but humorous Photoshop Prints of Peace!!! Or are you really dragging us toward the prince of madness? Which is it?

Thank you!

Thanks for the tutorial, your amazing 🙏

Not perfect but it definitely saved one of my works. It is hard that some projects need to be on the computer and some need to be printed too. It is also hard to predict it is successful or not when you are just learning. Though it is best to start projects in CMYK

Great video, thanks! Question: when I switch to CMYK mode, the colour looks exactly the same, not desaturated like in your video. I know there is a colour loss though, because when I convert to PDF/JPEG/TIF, the colour is desaturated. Is there a setting in CS6 that will allow me to see the changes as I am making them? I followed all your steps, and the PDF looks like it should, but the Photoshop window that I am working from looks way darker than it should. Basically, I can't accurately see the changes I am making unless I look at the PDF.

wonderful tut! thumb up!

WTH am I missing here?!?!?!? He started out by saying "that retains the original luminance data" but he clearly shows 2 images that look VASTLY different! How is that retaining anything?? huh?!?

thank you!

thank you

Thank you for the tutorial - However, I will keep my image in RGB but my home printer is CMYK and the result is very different to the RGB Photoshop image

Hello. I converted some illustrations to print opening a new PS folder and selecting CMYK colour. And then paste the previous RGB illustration. Do you think there wiould be any problem at printing??

Thank you so much

so great tips brother, thank u very much

I I could literally kiss you! You saved me weeks worth of work. Such a good tutorial. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Hi, I have a problem with converting from RGB to CMYK. I really hope for your help, because I find nothing on the internet. When I convert an image from RGB to CMYK, I realize that the colors are changing. But if I save the CMYK image once as JPG and once as PDS and open the images, the images have different colors, although in both cases it is the same CMYK image. How do I know which colors await me after printing?

Hi, thanks for this tutorial. Just a question - is it necessary to convert from RGB to CMYK for files destined to be printed on home printers?

I have to convert a coffee table book with about 1000 of RGB images for a big client... Is there a simpler way? Or a short cut? I read maybe not every image needs the conversion

Could anyone tell me please how I can get these big color swatches boxes displayed? Thanks!

can i do this with a jpeg imaga or do i use my psd file

anyone know how to make the black not have as much ink charging other colors?

hi . i have been making designs, for a month now, that i will sell in etsy. i will send the costumers jpg format for them to print. i just realized i have been making the designs in rgb format. is there a need for me to change them into cmyk?

so much help..... wanna know how to find number of colors on a pic?

Hey , do you know why my options when I open a file are - CMJN OR RVB ? I don't have CMYK , why ? Is it possible its because my illustrator is in French ? Thank you for the help !

Thanks so much for this video, it was really helpful! :)

Looks like he is able to print an RGB image??! He is showing both pictures at 0:21 sec. Maybe the vibrant one (RGB) is not printed ?! Little joke of Deke, so it seems!

AMAZING!

Wow! Awesome video! However did someone work all that out? Thanks a lot - subbed and liked. :)

Not only I learn about photoshop but also I practice my English. Thank yo very much , you are my genius. Gracias, Merci.

Love Deke

why would you post a tutorial on CMYK that doesn't get you print ready with shadows?

Hvala

Please can we have a link to this next free video ? Thx

Is this Photoshop Elements?

0:16 wow how has he managed to get a RGB image on paper

I tried this and the final CMYK photo ended up more vibrant than the original.

Help me Sir Please , Actually i Make an image (210mm/290mm , resolution-300) When i Print it it's Good , But i Also Make an Another image (1700mm/1000mm , Resolution-1000) , When i Print it it's Looking Very Bad , Please help me Sir it's my Project What Should i do Please ...... I already try CMYK But it's not good

Depending on your image you could just watch until 6:27 and changed the saturation of your image. Problem solved.

lol... if anyone is wondering how to convert RGB colors to CMYK, then just use the Photoshop color palette and see the numbers from there :d

Didn't work for me.

Why cant they look like the RGB ones???? The CMYK looks ugly please help

How to convert RGB to CMYK in photoshop without changing colors ?

Can someone please create a script to do all of that?

why is the video 12m long?

Copy merged not working. Why??

Went through the whole video to then be told: "we're just not going to get these colours"

A good color management tool can achieve the result by control the TAC but keep the lowest LAB tolerance between 2 color spaces. The most important thing is all work he did in Photoshop is unnecessary.

Sorry... this didnt work for me...

RGB color is color created with light, while CMYK is color created with ink. Everything you see using a monitor or screen display is RGB! The only reason photoshop or any other program allows you to convert a file or image into CMYK is to allow you to retouch the colors to match a printed sample color sheet that all professional commercial printers give you to prepare your color values accordingly for print. The only way you have to see CMYK colors is using a PRINTED REFERENCE from the same commercial printer that will print your file. Like the pantone catalog! You will never ever see CMYK colors display correctly in any monitor that proyects light (not ink!) colors!!!! Monitors use RGB to recreate color. So even when converting a file into CMYK you are still seeing it in RGB using your monitor or screen! Use printed reference to match colors. Always. Also take into consideration type of paper or surface to be printed on and type of printer to be used. Trust me is the only way. The professional way!

easier tip on how to convert a ready-to-print work from RGB to CMYK: start in CMYK mode to begin with --- NEVER in RGB

woo that did not work Though it is good to know people. Always start off with CMYK first! Basic. Though it is frustrating that PSD does not have an option but this is better than the other version even if my greens are not correct. Good thing it is about the art and not the color for me this time.

In the beginning I thought why turn RGB img to CMYK, if he printed RGB just fine, at the end of the video, I thought so I watched 12min and I still had to pay to find out the prints he showed in the very beginning. I have nothing against selling knowledge, but don't keep it till the end lol Should have read comment first.

Yeah thanks for that - that bullshit at the end sucks

Lynda, shame on you for your Bait & Switch marketing! To go through this whole thing then discover it's unusable will not win you friends.

What a nonsense this video is. At 3:20 you see the dialogue that you have to use for the conversion from RGB to CMYK. And that's it, you are done!!!! Other thing: at 2:29 he says to turn down those checkboxes. Well, if you do so, you might be heading for a world of pain. Some softwares are not color managed properly and remove the embedded profile reference, and when you reopen such an image with a missing profile in photoshop and you do not get a warning, Photoshop could irreversibly destroy your colors (if the working space is not the same as the image's original color space - which can readily happen if you send such an image to a printshop). This happened to me, and 1000 euros was wasted in printing because even the high-end print shop did not have their photoshop set up for warning in case of missing profiles. A concrete example: you have an image that was made in sRGB. then you edit it in a non-color managed software, the embedded profile reference disappears, and then if your photoshop's working space is set to Adobe RGB, then upon opening the afore-mentioned file in PS you get hideous colours and there is no way back. If you have the missing profiles warning, then upon opening it tells you, hey, profile is missing, and then you can assign the correct sRGB profile and everything is fine.

cmyk suckss >.

Deke is the S#hit ;)

* Yup didn't work* Pointless, I did everything THIS video said and didn't get a black mode" to convert/ copy to. Just a white screen. -__-

OMG... what a ridiculous process.

why do Americans say "this guy" when they're not talking about a guy!

talks way too fast and without explaining much, sorry

waist of time...

pssshhhh... typical photoshop bullshit... photoshop is less about design more about over complicating everything so it can sell you tutorials

zzzzzzzzzz...and not helpful

to much speeking