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Photoshop Elements is also very good at less than a sixth of the price of Photoshop. As is Acorn and a few other simple raster editors.

The basic Photoshop functions are generally all I need.įor those who only need, or want basic manipulation, Graphic Converter is nice. It seems to be a very decent, extremely inexpensive image editor that has a lot of the basic Photoshop functions. Some not directly in that folder, but aliases to where they are. ColorSync can see them, as any other ColorSync aware program can, because they are all in the global /Library/ColorSync/Profiles/ folder. Otherwise, you wouldn't have anything to pick from that anyone in printing would tell you was okay to use. Most of the better canned CMYK profiles are from Photoshop. I had tried the first two choices in the far left drop down menu and didn't bother with the third as I figured it wouldn't do anything different. There it is! I had tried ColorSync before posting above so I wasn't just saying, "It doesn't work". Snow Leopard installation has a function called "Match to Profile," and that function will actually convert the file to CMYK. Doing it ahead of the RIP allows them to have better control over the conversion. Though a better shop will flag RGB images in preflight and convert them at extra cost to you. While you can send RGB files to a print or prepress shop, you're then at the mercy of whatever automated conversion to CMYK is built into the RIP. So I do, in fact, have to have CMYK files. While it's likely the case that there are brand-spanking new versions of these that can handle RGB, newspapers usually buy really expensive equipment and keep it for a very long time. If all you need to do is lighten up a few photos so they don't plug on a newspaper press, Graphic Converter would appear to cost a lot less cash. If you build complex graphics in Photoshop, you probably need Photoshop. The basic Photoshop functions are generally all I need. I've only played with Graphic Converter for a couple of hours. I'm not sure whether those profiles are gifts from Apple or Adobe, but they are available in Colorsync on my Mac. I'm not sure about the CMYK options that you have available in Colorsync, but I have the same options in Colorsync that I have in Photoshop and Acrobat. The CMYK jpegs are not a pretty sight, in my experience. Once you've done that, however, it seems to be best to save the file as a tiff. But the Colorsync Utility version 4.6.2 in my Snow Leopard installation has a function called "Match to Profile," and that function will actually convert the file to CMYK. Kurt, it is true that Colorsync will allow you to apply a color profile to a file, and that won't change it from RGB to CMYK. Actually, I'm sending PDFs to the prepress department, which is running them through a rip to create plates. The device to which I am printing is a late-1990s KBM newspaper press. I don't have, or use Graphic Converter, so I don't know how that works as far as converting. Sheetfed Coated v2 (which you wouldn't have to use without ever having purchased Photoshop), is better than nothing. Even the basic CMYK spaces it provides, like U. You need to have profiles that are built to match the characteristics of that device, on the paper being used, in order to have any hope that the CMYK image you're viewing on your monitor will look anything like that on press, or from your desktop printer. Just as RGB is specific to your monitor profile, CMYK is specific to the output device, whether it's a cheap printer for your computer, or a 40" commercial press. Gloss will always be more vibrant than satin. Using the same printer, uncoated papers will always be dull compared to coated.

The color of any printed image is subject to the inks and paper you're using.

There's also your target device to consider. But when you save the file, it's still RGB. You can open a file and apply a CMYK profile. Very flat and ugly conversions.ĬolorSync also doesn't actually convert images to CMYK. For instance, the Generic CMYK profile supplied with OS X is probably the worst CMKY profile in the world. Using ColorSync or Graphic Converter is an extremely poor way to convert RGB to the CMYK color space. But otherwise, they all have at least those four basic colors. You do realize that every printer you buy uses CMYK to print whatever you send from the computer, right? Many have extra colors (6 and more inks total), usually to boost reds and blues that can't be reached with straight CMYK. It tends to be used by folks engaged in the old-fashioned process of applying ink to paper but not for much else.