From the course: Learning Print Production
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Understanding color space
- [Instructor] Before we get deeper into the printing process, I think it's helpful for you to understand some things about color space. So what is color space? You may have seen this diagram in the past, this big rainbow toe. Well, the exterior of this indicates something called lab color, which in essence represents what the human eye can see. You notice that there are smaller enclosures inside, Adobe RGB, which is the native space of Adobe applications is a little bit smaller than lab color obviously. One of the most commonly used color spaces is called sRGB and it's smaller than Adobe RGB. And then there's CMYK. Now an interesting thing about CMYK, it looks like it's a really small set of colors that you can work with, but notice this, that there's actually a part of CMYK that extends beyond sRGB, and that's when you start to get into cyan. So what does all this mean? Well, let's break it down. RGB versus CMYK…
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