WOT: Green in CMYK

i c e wrote on 12/1/2014, 5:07 PM

Hello everyone?

How was your holiday weekend? (really... every poster must reply. :)

I know this is way outside the video world. But I just know some people here are masters of all trades. So, I thought maybe I'd ask anyways.

Does anyone have any secrets of how to get nice greens in print material? The camera shoots in RGB, obviously printing is only CMYK.

I have done professional printing for years. Usually I just advise my clients away from using bright greens in design but in this case, it's a lush picture of mountain greenery and the CMYK conversion is butchering the image.

I have tried conversion in Photoshop and assigning a profile, neither is working.

Thanks for any ideas.

Joshua

Comments

farss wrote on 12/1/2014, 5:17 PM

If you're talking about print and you [I]really[/I] want a specific colour then the answer is to use "spot colours" and they're specified using (I think) the Pantone colour range. Expect a hefty bill from a printer for doing this, depending on their setup it can involves flushing ink lines etc. The only time I witnessed it being done was to print gold or silver.

The CYMK colour range is much bigger than what most (all?) DSCs can record and the entire gamut of human perception is larger still. Good luck as I've had a similar problem with a logo being printed onto CDs that had a red specified as a Pantone colour and no way could my far from cheap inkjet printer come close to it.

Bob.