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Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files

Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery

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Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to to add a few more steps to convert the image to CMYK for commercial reproduction, and to also save the image to yet a different folder so that we preserve this original RGB image complete with its smart objects and adjustment layer. So the first thing you want to do is make sure the Convert to prepress action is selected. Then, go ahead and click on the record icon down here at the bottom of the actions panel. Now one way to convert an image to CMYK is to go up to the Image menu, choose Mode, and then choose CMYK color, which is going to convert the image to the working CMYK space. But that's going to produce an alert message or two which an be a little bit irritating. And so the better way to work, at the least the way that gives you more control, is to go up to the Edit menu and chose Convert to Profile. Now, initially you may see a really odd preview given the fact that by default I'm converting from Adobe RGB to my working space which…

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