Reply To: RGB Problem

I place RGB images into my file.

On export to PDF I choose the “Convert to Destination (Preserve Numbers)” and select my output destination (whether it’s newspaper, book, magazine etc. and where in the world I’m having it printed.

This way I don’t have to have versions in RGB, and 5 versions in CMYK – imagine if this was the case and 100s of photos on a project and they wanted the images cropped, cloned, etc. that would be doing the work 6 times for 1 image, or 600 times instead of 100 times.

I’d much prefer to leave things as RGB and convert to CMYK on the fly.

As David says, there are exceptions, like being colour critical with a CMYK image – perhaps you need to have white out text over the text, and RGB to CMYK straight conversion gives you 90 Cyan, 100 M, 100 Y and 100 K – I’d much prefer the blacks be toned down a bit so that it’s easier for the printers to reverse out my text.

Anyway – it’s been a heck of a long time since I did any conversion from RGB to CMYK in photoshop. Let InDesign handle that, I will handle InDesign :)