CMYK or RGB for your Digital Painting?

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Generally, if I were to print my digital paintings, I set my canvas at CMYK from the start. There were times I started at RGB and converted to CMYK when going for printing. Seldom do the colors differ a lot. I was recommended to bump up the brightness by 20% to compensate when printing as prints are usually darker. Most of the time I print at a local print shop at the nearby shopping mall. The machine is a Xerox laser printer; desktop printing. Using CMYK. The print results of my artwork come out very much like what I see on my computer screen. Even for one of my old college projects, I used large pixel dimensions and high resolution of movie posters off the internet, put them in on the CMYK canvas in Photoshop, I was surprised the colors came out looking almost identical with on screen. If there were differences, it was very negligible,unless you went looking for it on purpose.

But a contributor on Fantasy Artist magazine, April Madden recommends that you work in RGB first. Because it offers more color gamut; i.e a larger selection of colors for you to work with. Also in RGB mode, you can use filters and other features that may not work or won't work with CMYK mode. Also, RGB mode has a smaller file size.Work in RGB first, then convert to CMYK. Before you convert, you can preview your artwork in CMYK, by doing this: Under Windows, click Arrange, new window. Then press CTRL + Y (Windows PC),and you will get a CMYK preview. When you continue to work in the RGB window, automatic updates happen in the preview window version. The CMYK version may look a bit different color wise. April recommends that adjust the CMYK conversion of your artwork from RGB by using Photoshop's adjustment layer. By adjusting the hue and saturations to bump the tones back up.

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