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Printers prefer CMYK
From the course: Digital Media Foundations
Printers prefer CMYK
- [Instructor] Printers use subtractive color. The presumption is that the paper's white which contains all colors, so selectively hiding the colors we don't want reveals the ones we do. It's a bit like putting a colored gel over a white light bulb. If the bulb is white, and you put a blue filter over it, you just see the blue light. That is, you'll see the blue part of the light emitted by the light bulb. The filter doesn't exactly modify the light. It just hides everything except the color you want to see. This means that technically, the filter isn't actually blue. It's every color except blue. It's hiding every color except that one. The cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks printers use work on the same principle. Though, of course, instead of covering up a white light bulb, they cover up white paper. You can interfere with this process by using colored paper, of course, though this would inevitably be a little bit hit and miss. There's a black ink in addition to cyan, magenta and…
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What are color modes?4m 1s
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Computer screens like RGB3m 34s
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Cameras and TVs like YUV2m 50s
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Comparing RGB and YUV4m 3s
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Printers prefer CMYK1m 57s
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All about alpha: Adding transparency1m 51s
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Masking areas of the picture with chroma key and luma key2m 44s
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Reducing the burden with color subsampling3m 23s
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High dynamic range: The biggest thing since color3m 1s
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What are legal levels?2m 20s
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Merging images with blend modes1m 25s
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