CMYK in pixlr editor I'm creating a design to be printed for cassettetapes - I don't really know too much about all the technicalities of designing and printing stuff, but I've found that pixlr uses RGB color system, and those colors (especially black for me) come out kinda faded when printing. The same is true if you design something in CMYK and then convert it to RGB. Additionally, certain colors can’t accurately be represented in one color mode or the other. For example, bright neon colors are impossible to print using traditional CMYK inks but are easy to display on a monitor using RGB. Color Printing Tip: Converting RGB to CMYK. It is possible to choose CMYK or RGB for print projects. If you know in advance that your document is intended for a high-quality print job — say, brochures or flyers — explore the settings in the computer program you’re using to see whether you can change the RGB default color mode to CMYK 4. It's been a while since this question has been asked, but a 'cheap' alternative to buying Photoshop is subscribing to it. If you buy a 1 year subscription, the current price is $24/month (or if you prefer, month to month is $36). As much as I love Gimp's philosophy, its CMYK support is still limited. Share. We convert from RGB to CMYK to control the balance of ink for printing. If you are performing a batch operation, you exercise no distinct control and the mass conversion of individual images to CMYK may be pointless. A page layout program like InDesign can accept RGB images and then produce CMYK output in one simple operation. You may have designed something beautiful, bright, and colorful in RGB and want to convert this to CMYK, but there’s a good chance that it will be much dimmer. The brightest colors that you can get by using CMYK color mode are solids, which means 100% of cyan, magenta, and yellow will appear the most colorful. To accurately convert values from RGB to CMYK and vice versa, the way Photoshop does, you need to use an ICC color profile. All the simple algorithmic solutions you'll find in the interwebs (like the one posted above) are inacurrate and produce colors that are outside the CMYK color gamut (for example they convert CMYK(100, 0, 0, 0) to rgb(0, 255, 255) which is obviously wrong since rgb(0, 255 The RGB ICC to CMYK ICC conversion (using an ICC profile that truly represents the printing condition) will potentially reduce the image colour by remapping it to the CMYK "gamut volume". The choice of "rendering intent" decides how that is done. Sometimes a Relative Colorimetric conversion will be better. In addition, when doing it on a kra file with filters and blending modes the result can change, when not careful, because CMYK is a substractive color model compared to RGB (which is additive) and hence most blending modes work the opposite or don’t work at all. So, yes you can do it but might require some extra work to keep it look good. there! How can you convert an CMYK image in RGB image without changing the color of the picture? Current result: from PIL import Image image = Image.open('img.jpg').convert('RGB') image.save('out.jpg') I am using this picture: After conversion, I get the following result: zhpFPQ.