I have a color I really want to use (#46E6DC) it's bright teal but when I convert it to CMYK it looks like an ugly grey/green. How can I make it print a bright teal? Thanks it's for a t-shirt.
I've recently ordered a proof copy of my book to make sure the formatting looks good. It does, but I've noticed a problem on my book's cover. The colors for the artwork are considerably faded. It's looks okay, sure, but not beautiful.
When I uploaded the files on KDP, the cover was a CMYK (I believe that's what Amazon requires for print books). But is there something I did wrong? I know CMYK doesn't have as wide a color palette as RGB, but is there anything I can do to improve the colors? Should I save the image files as something other than CMYK?
My publication has one spot color too many and I need to locate where it appears so I can modify it. Is there a quick and easy way to find it? I’ve used the Separations to shut-off every other color but do I need to visually scan 200+ pages? There has to be a better way, but what?
My employer orders thermoplastics of particular colors for vehicle interiors. We've have quite a few vendor changes recently and we are working with 20 year old drawings with very little definition for aesthetics. In order to adapt to the supply chain challenges, I'm working to better specify colors per standard and state allow color deviations.
How should colors be specified on engineering drawings and how are 'tolerances' for colors stated? And is there a most common standard that colors are inspected to?
Edit: Thank you all! This really helps me speed along this learning process and realize how much I may be over thinking it. I'm really glad I put the question to the sub!
I really am sorry if I'm in the wrong subreddit, if the topic is not within bounds, and I wish I knew how to make that topic title shorter.
I'm in a weird spot. I'm doing some comics restoration work, but what I have are digital files that (best as me and some others can tell) were colored from CMYK color guides, then converted to RGB for a digital release. They were originally printed on newsprint, which absorbed some of the ink and was accounted for in the color guides - but not the digital release. As it stands, the coloring is over-saturated and is something of an eyesore. I'm positive that a blanket script can be applied to fix the problem, but the way I'd test it, the sliders, etc., is beyond my really limited early range of knowledge.
Can anyone here point me in the right direction on how to deal with this? I know newsprint isn't super common to work with anymore, and recreating its color for glossy paper is somewhat specialized, but it's the only way to have the colors look... well... good. I'm happy to answer most any question, but I'm not sure where to start.
Thanks for reading.
I'm a colorblind cartoonist/graphic designer. I've managed finding colors one way or another for years, but now I want to get serious. So does anyone know of a book of CMYK colors that gives color names along with the codes? Thanks so much, in advance.
Just curious since CMYK seems to be the more aesthetically sophisticated means of assessing colors. Then again, I know next to nothing about color theory.
I have found some online poster printers at great prices but they don't print in fluorescent inks. Thanks.
In CorelDraw 2021, I used the Find and Replace tool, Replace Objects, Color model or palette option, to find any object with a Pantone color and convert to CMYK.
The CMYK value returned are different to the Pancone Color Finder.
Example:
Pantone+ Solid Coated V4 202 C, converts to C26 M100 Y92 K33. Pantone Color Finder suggests C1 M98 Y58 K44
The CorelDraw values result in a brownish result rather than the maroon I was hoping for, I think the Pantone Color Finder is likely to give a better result. Different, in any case! I've looked at the values for 10 of my most commonly used colors, and they all return different results.
Does anyone know why the CorelDraw values are so different to the Color Finder, and how to get Corel to return values closer to the color finder?
Any help greatly appreciated!
I'm trying to make some stickers at home to sell and converting RGB to CMYK and having it not look like a mess is a giant pain. Is there anyway to just color in CMYK so I don't have to worry so much about how the colors will print out or is this something that is simply not possible?
Greetings, all. Kind of a basic question for the master color mixers out there. Does anyone have a recommendation for best Vallejo primary colors for CMYK mixing?
For example, if I were to pick a single Vallejo cyan, should I pick Deep Sky Blue and Andreas Blue? Deep Yellow vs. Lemon Yellow? And am I crazy or does their Magenta here look... very red? This Sunset Red looks closer to what I imagine Magenta is, but maybe it's just how the color displays online.
Any other opinions or preferences? In general, I want the brightest color, if I am going to mix, correct? Or perhaps none of this matters because I'll be doing so much experimentation with ratios anyways.
Hi guys,
I've been working on modeling the Material Design color palette mathematically and using Quadratic/Spline/Centripetal Catmull Rom Spline algs to smoothly interpolate between swatches and luminosity values. I started this project while open sourcing my WPF/XAML/C# Material Design Graphing, Charting, and Data Visualization framework. https://imgur.com/a/qTcnB?grid Here's a bunch of demos of the old version of the framework in action. Unfortunately i'm starting to hit the limits of my math and statistics knowledge.
###Interpolation Function Parameters:
swatch: (0.00 -> 1.00), %-progression through:
[Red, Pink, Purple, ..., Orange, DeepOrange, Brown, Grey, BlueGrey]
luminosity: (0 -> 1000)
[050, 100, 200... ...700, 800, 900]
isAccent: (false, true)
So you have 2 separate planes of 3d surface charts plotting each channel of the RGB/CMYK/HSL/HSV model, one set for all the accent brushes (A#00) {A100, A200, A400, A700} and one for the standard primary brushes (#00) {050, 100, 200, ..., 700, 800, 900}.
Has anyone ever tried this or is anyone interested in this sort of thing? I have a ton of code and analytical spreadsheets and datasets analyzing RGB/CMYK/HSL/HSV trends of the defined set to smoothly model/interpolate the material design color palette. I know this concept is not MD-Spec.
Here's the code I have so far. Its written for my C#/WPF/XAML Material Design framework that im trying to rewrite as open source.
[The Material Design Architecture Framework Rewrite as Open Source (So Far)] (https://github.com/vreniose95/Ccr/tree/master/Ccr.MaterialDesign/MaterialDesign)
[Themes, Defined Brushes, Palette] (https://github.com/vreniose95/Ccr/tree/master/Ccr.MDHybrid/MDHybrid/Themes)
[Quadratic/Spline/Centripetal Catmull Rom Spline Interpolation Algorithms] (https://github.com/vreniose95/Ccr/blob/master/Ccr.Algorithms/Algorithms/SplineInterpolationAlgorithms.cs)
Color Logic and Math, Conversion Math Between Color Models
GIF demo of a visualization of my Palette/Swatch/MaterialBrush hierarchy: https://imgur.com/a/BfFdY
Anyone interested in this concept or possibly helping me try to figure it out?
Thanks!
