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Need some help with final CMYK printout color quality.

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Jul 29th 2003#115562 Report
Member since: Jul 29th 2003
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I'm making an ad with alot of bright colors. It's gonna be printed to a glossy photo paper for distribution, but I'm having a hard time getting the monitor colors to match the printout colors.
I started as RGB workspace, then once finished I converted to CMYK, but the colors drastically get dull.

I know that it is normal for colors to change during RGB to CMYK transition, but is there any way I can preserve those bright colors?.. (it's mostly bright orange and green.)

Any ideas?.

Workspace specs :

RGB : ADOBE RGB 1998

CMYK : SWOP V2 20%

Conversion : ACE

Intent : Relative colormetric.

Thanks in advance. =)
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Aug 1st 2003#116064 Report
Member since: Jul 2nd 2003
Posts: 15
Go to FILE, COLOR SETTINGS, CMYK SETUP (in Photoshop 5- INK SETUP in PS4, and in PS6 somewhere in EDIT menu). Nevermind. Instead of chosing from the list (swop, euro, toyo, etc) go at the top of the list : CUSTOM. Double click each color box, and pick for each the clearest color, i.e. for cyan G255&B255, yellow R255&G255. For M+Y, put pure red255. Save this combination and reload when needed. It would be a workspace mostly like the common RGB you used before. Pay attention that some colors will show a "!" in the info box (unprintable colors, out of range-they will be printed with the closest color). Read more in HELP about this. GOOD LUCK.
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