CMYK colour mode

Hello
I need to create a document, which i want to print, in CMYK mode, but this is not possible on photoshop elements 5. Apparently photoshop doesn't support CMYK. Does anyone know why? Some of my collegues are grafic designer who also work with photoshop and they say, that CMYK is always available... I don't understand why it's not available on my software. Do i need to change the setting or something? I would be very grateful, if anyone out there could help me. Thanks!
Best regards,
Tamara

Ask your friends to do the conversion for you with their full Photoshop. Or if it is just for a single document, maybe download the CS6 trial version which you can use for 30 days.
I suppose you have to supply this CMYK to a commercial printing shop ?
I don't see why you would need CMYK to print on an home printer.

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Any ideas?

You are correct - CYMK is considered a professional requirement by Adobe, not a consumer feature.

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I agree with Chris, and others - a good assignment should have several elements to it, and learning each, is what one should strive for.
A lesson might seem simple, like RGB Color Mode to CMYK Color Mode, but will likely have additional aspects, like dealing with a commercial printer, and working with their specified attributes for CMYK.
Same could be said for a lesson on isolating elements in an Image. One could buy a stock Image, with an Alpha Channel, but that would bypass learning how to create that Alpha Channel, and in life, not all Images come with Alpha Channels, or at least the one(s), that one might need/want.
A good instructor will structure a lesson with many parts, leading to the end result.Learning each part, will improve one's knowledge of Photoshop. I recommend against taking any short-cuts, as when one walks out the door, into the real world, knowing how to do everything in PS, will be very important.
Adobe has a nice series, Classroom in a Book, for many of their products. For most exercises, there is a "finished" version of that exercise, on the included disc. One could just print out the "finished" version, and then proclaim, "Hey, I finished Adobe Classroom in a Book for PS CS5," but what would they have learned, along the way? Almost zero. Learning is open-ended, and should be a goal, and never-ending.
I've been using PS for about 2 decades, and have made very good living with it. However, one of the main reasons that I come here, is to learn more. One can never know it all.
Also, prior to my retirement, I often did not have the leisure to learn new methods, as I had deadlines, so had to just go with what I knew. When I had downtime, I spent those hours in CiaB, or by taking community college courses in Photoshop (and Illustrator, InDesign, Flash and Dreamweaver), though I already had degrees in Civil Engineering and Cinematography, plus many hours toward my MFA. I did not care about any academic credits - only learning.
Do not take the easy way out. Do each exercise/assignment, as structured. If good, they will teach you more, than just the subject of the exercise/assignment. Should be much more to learn, than just one aspect of PS.
Enjoy your classes, and the exercises. The more that you do learn, the more that you can offer your clients, later on.
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I am working on a business card for a customer, I am using Adobe Indesign CS3.
I use an outside company for the printing job called 4over (4over.com) and they require you use their cmyk pdf print engine so they can do the job properly... Basically to break it down: I am in Indesign CS3, I choose Print, and as the printer I choose their "4over pdf cmyk print engine" so the colors do not convert and the color doesnt change when they use their printers.
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if anyone can help me please. I would really appreciate it.
I attached the file I sent to 4over incase that helps anyone answer my question.
Thank you,
Brandon

Before exporting, in the swatch panel, select your Pantone colour, right click and select swatch options. Change the color type to Process and the color mode to CMYK.
If it's a business card and you showed the client a pantone swatch, know that you won't get the same colour results. There's a very useful Pantone book available that shows swatches side by side with CMYK values.
http://www.pantone.com/pages/products/product.aspx?pid=283&ca=1&s=4

Colour mode and resolution

In Photoshop Elements is it possible to change the colour mode (ie from rgb to cmyk) and the resolution?

-It is possible to change resolution of a image using "Image Menu > Resize > ImageSize" dialog in PSE.
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Organizing colour mode for print in Illustrator

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I want to set up my document as a two-colour for print. I'm not really sure what is the correct swatch library to choose, if there is such a thing. Either way, i selected Pantone Solid Uncoated as my swatch library. I chose two colours from this and applied them to all aspects of my document. However, the document colour mode is still set to the default CMYK, and my only other choice is RGB. My question is, how do I organize my document to be 2-colour pantone print ready?
Regards,
Erin.

I'm not really sure what is the correct swatch library to choose, if there is such a thing.
Erin,
You don't have to use a so-called "Color Book" Swatch Library at all to define a spot color. You can set up the on-screen appearance of a color any way you want (using RGB or CMYK values) and simply define it as a Spot Color. You can also name a spot color anything you want. And you can do this in either a CMYK or RGB document.
The truth is, a spot color is nothing but grayscale values sent to a single color separation plate.
For example: Suppose you just don't find Illustrator's onscreen display a convincing rendition of Pantone Metallic 875. You can simply create a new swatch, adjust its CMYK or RGB sliders to something that does look like 875 on screen, set that Swatch to Spot, and name it "Pantone 875 Spot."
Different example: Suppose you are building a 5-color (process plus 1 spot) glossy brochure (a very common practice). The client's logotype color spec is Pantone 875 metallic. You want occurrances of the logo and the company's tag line to overprint in that ink. But you also need to simulate the logotype color in product illustrations that will occur in the brochure. You have learned from experience (read tests) that even Pantone's own recommendation for CMYK simulation of 875 does not yield a satisfying or convincing simulation in print. In this case, you might simply define the CMYK values that you consider satisfying for simulating 875 in CMYK artwork, name that Swatch "Pantone 875 Process", duplicate that Swatch, change it to Spot, and rename it "Pantone 875 Spot." When you print seps, you'll still get seps named Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and Pantone 875 Spot.
It's all-too-easy (and all-too-frequent in this forum) to just toss out off-the-top "feature requests." It's quite another thing to actually think it through before doing so. Illustrator does not need a separate "spot color mode."
Spot color is, by definition, for print, as is CMYK. They are just elements of the same color-separation process. Spot color is quite commonly combined with CMYK process. It would be patently ridiculous to require changing a document from CMYK to Spot Color just to use spot color. Spot color swatches are used every day in CMYK documents for everything ranging from the 5-color artwork described above to varnishes and spot liquid lamination.
Even Illustrator's distinction between CMYK and RGB Document Color Modes has more to do with maintaining onscreen display of color than with any mechanical or workflow necessity. Other programs don't do that. You don't see "CMYK vs. RGB" documents in Draw, FreeHand, Canvas. In any mainstream drawing program, you can define RGB and/or CMYK and/or spot colors all day long in the same document. Users have been doing this just fine for literal decades. I have decades of project archives to proove it.
Now, something that would be both useful and genuinely innovative in vector programs (and befitting the industry's sometimes overblown focus on onscreen color calibration) is onscreen consideration of the real-world opacity of inks. Fact is, even with all of Illustrator's hair-splitting focus on color-calibration profiles, etc., etc., it (and all other programs like it) does a pathetic job of making a reasonable onscreen representation of spot inks. Understand--this is not a matter of color model "mode"; it's a matter of overcoming the effective assumption that there is only one kind of "printing" in the world, i.e., offset printing with translucent inks.
Example: Set up a process-color job that will be printed not on white paper, but on a dark substrate. The illustration is, say, a dinosaur. You, the illustrator (remember? the name of this program is "Illustrator") intend to use yellow ink as a highlight that overprints some darker green. You know this will work, because you know that the yellow spot ink you have specified is much more opaque than the translucency of ordinary CMYK offset process inks that Illustrator always assumes. Suppose that in addition to this, you intend to use an opaque white ink in the design; or a metallic. Turn on the so-called "overprint preview" feature and you'll see that Illustrator (and programs like it)--with all its painstaking focus on onscreen color calibration and gee-whiz "transparency"--is completely incapable of convincingly displaying this common scenario--used everyday on everything from T-shirts to lunch boxes. The fact is, illustration programs are used every day as workflow production tools for much broader applications than just offset printing and web pages. There's silkscreen, signage, embroidery, flexography, etc.
A spot ink is nothing more than a user-defined ink--a process separation plate other than the common four. Stating that Illustrator 'needs a Spot Color mode' is confusing spot color with line art. Spot color is as much a part of process separation as it can be part of line art. Providing the user the ability to specify the real-world opacity of the user-defined ink in the real-world printing method being targeted would be a truly useful feature.
Understand: This is not pie-in-the-sky. It can already be done (and commonly is) in Photoshop, because Photoshop correlates Channels to inks, and you can define as many additional channels as you want, and you can individually set their opacity. The onscreen display properly reflects the real-world opacity without wrecking the real-world separations.
So just think of a spot color Swatch as an additional user-defined process INK. Think of the various spot color Libraries as mere preset conveniences.
You could define a spot color Swatch named "Pantone 875" that looks purple on screen if you had some desire to do so. It would still print correctly so long as the printing house put Pantone 875 INK in the press--which is what they'll do if the separation plate says "Pantone 875"--which is what it will if you name the spot ink that way.
Also: Assuming you have the Adobe PDF virtual printer installed (which you probably do), to test your spot color separations you can simply invoke the Print dialog, select Adobe PDF as the "printer" and select Separations in the Output pane. The resulting PDF will contain one grayscale page for each INK.
JET

Save as JPEG changes CMYK colour

Hi,
I have a solid colour in Photshop that I set CMYK values for (I work in CMYK image mode). When I save as JPEG, the resulting JPEG file changes one of the CMYK values by 1 percentage point. When I save as TIFF, it works fine (CMKY values match original photshop file). What is going on?
This is for CS4.
Thanks.

I'm confused. If your goal is to print the image, why not open the jpeg in Photoshop, do a save as using the native .PSD Photoshop file format, and just continue to work and save in that file format? Going back to jpeg makes no sense.
In the first place, Jpeg does not support the CMYK color space, so every time you save it, it will save in the much smaller sRGB space. Also, between this and the fact that it compresses the image even at the highest settings, you are going to get changes in the image, including in the colors.
Just avoid all this and work in .PSD file format.
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If you're going to be doing inkjet printing, or via a service, I'd suggest staying in an Rgb workspace--you can still decide to use the CMYK menu to select your colors.
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Why am I loosing my transparent background (converting as solid white) when I convert an image from RGB to CMYK. I selected transparent background when I set up the document and changed colour mode through image>mode>CMYK. What am I doing wrong?

Great thanks! I just save as TIFF instead of JPG and ticked save transparent info which seems to be working. Not sure how I flattened it.

Is there a way to format multiple images at once? Change colour mode or resolution?

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It's very easy to make an action.
Go to window > actions
In the actions panel, simply click the 'create a new action' button, it starts recording as soon as you've created it (when you've given it a name).
Now you can apply the changes you want to make to the images on the file you have opened.
After you've done all you need to do. You click the 'stop' button. The action is now ready to use. And you can apply the changes you made on all the other files.
Then you can continue how gener7 explained.
I usually include a save and close command, so that the whole batch doesn't end up opened after running the script.
But if you do that you have to create a new file, and save it to your computer before you start recording the action, otherwise the save command will be replaced by each file. And you'll end up with one edited file in the end. At least for as far as I know!

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I am starting with a TIF image in RBG color mode, a tree with grass in the background and foreground for example. I would like to eliminate the grass, make that background and foreground transparent with the background eraser tool so that only the tree remains and that when the tree is superimposed on a second image the background and foreground surrounding the tree will be that second image. In order to make the background and foreground of the tree transparent I have to save the file in GIF or PNG format since transparency doesn't seem work with TIF files however I cannot convert the GIF or PNG files from RBG to CMYK. CMYK doesn't seem work with those file types.
From: J Maloney [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:00 PM
To: Todd Beckerman
Subject: Transparency in CMYK color mode
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Depending on where you bought it you may be able to return it for a full refund within thirty days. Certainly if you got it from Adobe you can return it no reason required (within thirty days).
Not quite sure why you think it is shabby though. Surely you must have realised that there would be differences between a $700 product and a $100 one.
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In both Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Illustrator CS2 have the same color settings.
If I take a RGB file that was created in Photoshop CS2 and place this file in a CMYK color mode document in Illustrator CS2, does this cause a problem for the output of the document ?
If you look at the ''Document Info'' window you can now see that the RGB file is now a CMYK file. Is this a good working habit ?
Thanks in advance. :)

>Is it ok in the long run to placing a RGB photoshop eps file into a Illustrator CS2 CMYK color mode document ?
Please explain why you would do such a thing? (Why RGB, and why EPS.)
>If I take a RGB file that was created in Photoshop CS2 and place this file in a CMYK color mode document in Illustrator CS2, does this cause a problem for the output of the document ?
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