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I need help in Photoshop... PLEASE?

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I took a picture with my digital camera that I want to apply on a brochure that is gonna be printed. The problem is that the picture is mostly blue and when I convert it to CMYK it looks terrible!

It has to be converted to CMYK because it has to be printed. What do I do?

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  1. you can adjust the color balance in photoshop, separately for each channel (C, M, Y, K) to help it look better


  2. I see that many attempts are being made to answer your question, but I don't see how anyone can take a guess at how to fix the problem without knowing, exactly, what the problem is.

    All you said about your results is that is looks terrible.  What does that mean?  Is it too blue?  Is it not blue enough?  Did the blue go away or change to something else?  Did it get pixelated?  Does it "look terrible" only in the monitor or in the print?  Or both?

    If you start trying a lot of random solutions without knowing what is going on, you could end up with something even worse.

    What to you mean by "looking terrible?"

  3. Not sure if this will help but I learned a lot about photoshop by watching tutorials online and reading up on things I wanted to do.  A specifically helpful and really funny tutorial is on youtube under the title of "You suck at photoshop" you really should check it out.  

    Hope this helps.  

  4. Conversion from RGB to CMYK shouldn't actually change the colors. It should only change how it is stored to be accessed easily by the printer. It may just be that it looks bad on a monitor (which shows color by RGB) and will look ok when it is printed. If you can, try printing one to be sure that isn't the problem.

  5. Adjust the levels, and curves, and color balance BEFORE changing to CMYK.  Goto "Image > Adjustments" to find these tools. Levels will adjust the lighting so to speak, and curves will touch it up even more. Then the color balance can take away some of the blue and give it a different hue. If you need more help, email me.  

  6. Yeah, CMYK always looks way different on your computer than it does printed out. Try this; convert it to CMYK and print it out on your own colour printer. Chances are it won't look so bad! :-)

    Alternatively, while your image is still in RGB, click View>Proof Colors

    That'll show you what it WILL look like when it's converted to CMYK. Play with  your saturation, levels, etc... to see if you can get it to look closer to the way you want it to. DON'T mess with those settings while the image is in real CMYK. Just do CMYK as a last step.

    Good luck!

  7. Either take the picture again. Or find sombody who can convert the picture for you on Adobe illistrater

  8. Look at my source about Photoshop Techniques.  It will help.  

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