"KatWoman" wrote in message

Sorry if I asked this before

I made a website
www.sheilabarishvoice.com

my original design was only black and white (silver)
client likes purple and requested the other colors
looks great on monitor she is very pleased with it
Had to make business cards
When I changed colors to CMYK, I lose all the bright magenta (fuchsia), it
looks dullish rose pink,
and the purple looks duller more violet and flat.
I could not fix it with the swatches from CMYK or the curves etc on the text
layers
The client accepted it anyway and it's already printed.

But for future
Is there any way for me to get the brighter colors to print? I see these type colors in other publications.
I can even achieve better on my inkjet.
Is there some way to use spot colors for this?
will it still be savable as a jpg or tiff flattened?
Please don't say Illustrator, I am really way noobie at it and not as comfortable as PS.

My take is a little different than tacit's, though I agree that many colors will be muted when going from RGB to CMYK, not all of them will be. There are ways to deal with this.

The simplest is to use Relative Colorimetric when you make your conversion, and not Perceptual. For artwork, the Saturation intent might be appropriate. Try all three and see which one works best.

In your case, the magenta available in CMYK is better than the one in RGB, provided you do not add too much white to it. Ditto for purple, which is really a darker form of magenta perhaps with a bit of cyan added.

Type and line art should generally be on its own layer, and should be all on the same plate or it will have registration problems.
--

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com

couragestudio

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