What is color space – RGB, CYMK?
RGB is red – green – blue, it’s what you are looking at right now. It’s computer monitor, TV, a fancy colored light bulb. If you take a digital picture or scan an image, it’s RGB, that’s the technology. Most laser and inkjet printers do a good job printing RGB images, but if an image is going to be used in a newspaper, magazine, or anything printed by a print shop, it has to be converted to a CYMK image. CYMK is cyan – magenta – yellow – black. The reason being, color separation for print. Software will convert RGB to CYMK, but it requires color correction, it’s not as simple as just a click. RGB encompasses about 16.8 million colors, CYMK just about 250,000. Even though 250,000 seems like a lot, it’s just a fraction of that 16.8 million. When the conversion from RGB to CYMK takes place lots of things can get funky. Color correction fixes this, although it is horse-trading, doing the best you can. Again, this is best done by someone who knows how to do it, otherwise you will have to pa
