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Hi there. In this video,
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we're going to talk about RGB versus CMYK.
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You might have come across this, you might not have.
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It's kind of a cinch, I guess,
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to understand the basics,
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so let's cover them quickly.
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So, when you setting up a new document,
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you're given the option to pick RGB or CMYK.
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Okay. So, if I go to print and pick one of the defaults,
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you might not have this viewable,
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you might have to click Advanced Options,
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but by default, it's going to go to CMYK.
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If I go to something like web, or film,
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or pretty much any of the other ones and I pick one of these,
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it's going to default to RGB.
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So, RGB is a color,
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it's just red, green and blue,
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and basically those are the colors used for screens to display color.
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So, my laptop in front of me right now uses a mixture of red,
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green and blue to generate the colors that we see.
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But we know that if we use our printer,
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the one on our desk, we have a look,
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it's going to use cyan,
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magenta, yellow and black,
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and that's CMYK that uses those colors to mix together.
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The big difference is RGB has like an end secret ingredient.
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It has light, luminance,
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it has light coming out of the screen that
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allows it to kind of generate more colors than CMYK can.
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You probably have tried it before.
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You've printed an image,
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it looks great on screen,
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but it print's a bit washed out,
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because your screen has light coming out of it
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whereas the paper from your printer has no light.
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So, it's a different kind of color mode.
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RGB has a bigger gamma of color,
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CMYK has a smaller one.
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Now, why would you use both?
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Basically, RGB as a rule is probably your best one to use for everything at the moment,
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especially if you're going to use something that's going out via email or via a website.
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Even if it's going to print,
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it's probably going to be dual use,
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so many things are these days,
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you're probably going to want to use it for
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both your website to be downloaded and to be going to commercial print.
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If it's something you're creating like a postcard that's going to commercial print only,
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you might want to consider using CMYK.
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But in that case as well,
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in my experience that most modern printers will expect RGB,
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they've got some really cool reps and ways of skimming the most out of the CMYK.
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So, often, just use RGB if you're unsure.
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If you're a little bit more professional,
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you probably know this already then,
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and you can use CMYK.
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Now, let's have a little look at the differences between the two.
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Now, let's go to File, Open,
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and in here there's one called colors.ai. Open it up.
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So, this is an RGB document. How do I know?
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The easiest way is up in the tab here,
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you can see it's RGB.
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Okay? The way to change it,
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let's say I want to be in CMYK,
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I can go to file, this one called Document Color Mode.
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You can see I've ticked RGB.
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Watch what happens when I change it to CMYK. Watch the colors.
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Watching the colors? They wash out quite a bit.
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It's giving you a representation now of what it would look like as CMYK.
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Now, if you're only going to commercial print and they have asked for CMYK,
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there's no point being an RGB.
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Okay. But if you're like me,
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I often dual-use things,
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I'll use of all sorts of things.
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I'll start in RGB and often just send it to the printer in RGB,
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and depending on your printer,
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they've got really good ways of converting it to
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CMYK to try and restore some of those colors.
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All right. So, I hope that's giving you a little bit of understanding of CMYK and RGB.
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So, my basic skim rules are,
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use RGB, and send it around, it works fine.
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It works on digital and works good for printing to local printers,
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even like my office printer,
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accepts an RGB better and process it
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nicer than if I send it a proper CMYK official version.
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But you need to know the difference between the two.
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Some printers will demand CMYK,
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and that's fine, that's the way they work.
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Okay. So, just make sure you working it in CMYK.
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You might have to have two versions of the document,
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one in RGB for digital,
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and another one in CMYK.
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All right. Let's get into some more exciting stuff about color.
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Let's get into the next video.
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