4 days ago · This option also includes the Document RGB profile for untagged RGB objects. Include Destination Profile - Assigns the Destination profile to all objects. If Convert To Destination (Preserve Color Numbers) is selected, untagged objects in the same color space are assigned to the destination profile so that color numbers don’t change. In the past I always used to convert my images to CMYK in Photoshop before sending a job to print, because usually I would be supplying packaged artwork (Pagemaker/Quark/Indesign) to my printer. These days however, 99% of the time I would be supplying a print-quality PDF exported from Indesign. I understand that with the right settings Therefore you open the Color Picker in a CMYK file select a color by any means and that becomes the CMYK tint to be used, when saved will be that same tint. Open the Color Picker. Click inside any of the numerical windows for C, M, Y, or K. the button above shows save as CMYK. Unlike Photoshop, where it’s easy to find, in InDesign it’s not obvious at all. Some people believe you can view the current document’s profiles by choosing Edit > Color Settings, but this is not so; the Color Settings dialog box shows the default settings for new documents you create, not the current document. Here's how to convert colors to CMYK in Adobe Color, export RGB and CMYK colors from Adobe Color to InDesign, and how to convert RGB colors to CMYK colors in 4. Illustrator and Photoshop allow for color picker selection using Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (as well as Hex). Illustrator CS6 color picker. Indesign does not allow for Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (or hex) specification in the color picker. But Indesign does offer L A B* color selection where Photoshop and Illustrator do not. DT4hEy. I found it by accident. While in the colour picker tool. Make sure the letter H in HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) is selected, usually, the default is the letter R is selected for the RGB (Red, Green, Blue). That will give you the colour picker like in Illustrator and Photoshop. growbylearning • 1 day ago. 1 Answer. SVG documents can only be in RGB as far as I know. They can be automatically converted to CMYK on export from InDesign, but you can't export to a spot color like that. Open the SVG in Illustrator. Change the colors to the wanted spot color. Save as an AI or PDF file and relink in InDesign. CMYK can't produce neon colors because it's ink. It's a subtractive color space meaning the less ink, the brighter the color. The way you get neon green is using a custom spot color ink. The most common spot color library is Pantone. If you show a print shop your RGB color they can convert it for you to a spot color using the Pantone matching The PDF’s CMYK color is DeviceCMYK (no embedded profiles). The Output Intent Profile lets the printer know what the expected CMYK output space is, but the color itself is not profiled. Spot colors are left unchanged. PDF/X-3 flattens live transparency, but allows a mix of CMYK, RGB and Lab process color—all RGB objects get an embedded profile. Just note that if the document’s Intent is Web you can still turn on Overprint Preview, or create CMYK swatches and colors—the Web Intent initially sets the default swatches and Transparency Blend Space to RGB, but any InDesign document lets you mix RGB, CMYK, and Lab colors, or change the blend space.

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