From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Unlock the full course today
Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Contents
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Several incentives to recording actions1m 50s
-
Introducing the Actions panel8m 6s
-
Recording a simple but practical action6m 43s
-
Modifying and playing a specific step6m 52s
-
Customizing settings during playback5m 29s
-
Adding steps to an existing action7m 4s
-
Actioning a consistent image resolution10m
-
Modifying an adjustment and adding Save As5m 42s
-
Actioning the creation of flat CMYK files5m 10s
-
Batch processing an entire folder of images5m 18s
-
Saving and loading your actions4m 24s
-
-