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The final color mode: CMYK - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
The final color mode: CMYK
In this exercise, I'll introduce you to the final color mode that's available to you inside Photoshop, which is CMYK. Now those letters CMYK stand for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. The four so-called process color inks, which are the standards for commercial printing. And the reason I bring up CMYK in the first place is because one of the most common questions I get when I'm showing folks how to mask images is can I work in CMYK? Because between you and me I personally do 99% of my work in RGB, I do a little work occasionally in lab, and I do exactly 0 in CMYK. And I'm about to show you why? And over time I'll show you tips and tricks for grabbing mask from an RGB image, but I want you to understand why masking from CMYK is generally a bad idea. I've gone ahead and saved my most recent version of that original composition as Crazy RGB colors.psd. I'm going to go ahead and turn off that Vibrance layer, because we don't need it, and then I'll go out to the Image menu choose mode and…
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The Masks and Channels panels4m 48s
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How color channels work7m 7s
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Viewing channels in color3m 24s
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How RGB works4m 12s
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Single-channel grayscale5m 12s
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Mixing a custom "fourth" channel5m 15s
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The other three-channel mode: Lab5m 45s
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A practical application of Lab4m 55s
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The final color mode: CMYK7m 6s
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Introducing the Multichannel mode5m 56s
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Creating a unique multichannel effect5m 18s
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The channel is the origin of masking1m 54s
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