![]() ![]() The following is just a written overview. This will change the color format of your document and restrict it to shades that are exclusively within the CMYK gamut. Just do it right in the first place and don't try to salvage junk to save work. To convert your RGB document to CMYK using Adobe Illustrator, simply navigate to File -> Document Color Mode and select CMYK Color. I'm well on my way to creating everything new, fresh from the ground up as I can see THIS is the way to not wind up with disappointment. I've decided to trash the whole job and start over from scratch. I realized that the whole job was trash but need to know, can you read a RGB image on screen with the eydropper tool and get a reading as the dialog shows HSB and CMYK as well as RGB when you take an eyedropper reading. I've realized that my question was better expressed as 'How do I determine the match in CMYK for a placed RGB image, I cannot convert the RGB image to CMYK as it is only a jpeg image and needs to be matched for 'black' as that is the part that must be matched. I'm taking in all of the great information as truly there is only one way to do a job and that is the right way, doing all the right steps to ensure a good outcome. ![]() Golden Help Awards to everyone who has responded here. and color mode - I assume is US Web Coated (SWOP), for this printer. I see that there is a 'Document Color Mode' choice at the bottom of the File Menu pull-down, the choice there was on RGB, Is all I need to do is change that setting to CMYK? Will that affect the entire output PDF? I need to be sure. I want to be sure as I need to send this job back through to the printer and this time we need to see success and put this error behind us. ![]() MY QUESTION is, as I go through each layer, HOW DO I SPECIFY that each element like the simple filled with black blocks are CMYK. as I see now some of the layers with nothing but blocks that were black were actually RGB (all set to #0000) and the final PDF picked up on the difference and the result was disasterous. The problem was that a background that was supposed to be black came out as a grey while other elements of art that had black backgrounds printed fine as black, so the background was a mish-mash of some grey and some black rather than all black. I sent a file to a printer that came back printed as a disaster. We are never done learning in this world as I'm finding out. ![]()
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