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  • September 11, 2018 at 1:44 am in reply to: PDF with different Color profile #110363
    Gustavo Sánchez Muñoz
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    Hi,

    Elaborating the issue, the advantage of converting *first* in Photoshop comes when you have a given picture that would benefit clearly from a manual intervention and you do it (best before converting to CMYK).

    (And even then, you could let the picture stay in RGB and just apply adjustment layers and masks so as not to alter the picture data in a non reversible way.)

    Otherwise, it is true that, if what you are going to do is just changing the image to CMYK from Photoshop, there’s no advantage whatsoever over doing that straight away in InDesign while exporting to PDF. The color conversion would be exactly the same given the same parameters (ie: colour profiles and rendering intent applied).

    I guess that nowadays is best to make the RGB-CMYK conversion as late as possible in the workflow.

    September 6, 2018 at 8:07 am in reply to: PDF with different Color profile #110287
    Gustavo Sánchez Muñoz
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    Hi,

    I’d always do the correction *before* converting from RGB to CMYK with ‘preview CMYK output’ in Photoshop.

    If it’s a one-time job with just one picture, it will be easier to make three versions of the picture (each time from RGB to CMYK with the needed profile, never from CMYK to CMYK) and then placing the three versions of the picture with the optimal correction in each document with the proper CMYK profile as ouput intent.

    Of course, we assume a calibrated workflow and an educated individual on the receiving end (which is not the same as ‘strict’ ;) ).

    For a more complex work (more pictures or documents involved), it’d be a sloppy way of working, though.

    Just my opinion.

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