RGB vs CMYK: some experiments

I've been trying to wrap my head around this since this thread started, and
I finally decided to do some noodling around in Photoshop to see if I could
understand it a little better. And I took some notes:

http://www.toad.net/~jdefontes/rgb-cmyk/

Hope it's helpful to someone.

-Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katharine Thayer [mailto:kthayer@pacifier.com]
>
> I've been thinking about this whole question of why some people prefer
> CMYK and others prefer RGB, and it seems to me that perhaps you could
> make a case for the proposition that people who came to color gum
> printing from color photography think in terms of color photography
> when approaching gum printing, and the RGB route makes more
> sense to us.
> But for people coming from printmaking, or from commercial printing or
> pre-press, then the CMYK route may seem more logical. Just a
> thought....
Received on Fri Dec 3 01:51:17 2004