color space view from rgb to cmyk

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lets get to the point - how do you change the rgb picker back to the cymk?

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vinny38

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Let's get to the point... You can't!

Color Space View in Color Picker Tool is either RGB or Lab based (which in a way does make sense since I suppose you don't have a CMYK screen, do you? ^^ But on the other hand, I understand that a CMYK color space could be handy, although not 100% accurate, even with a calibrated screen *)

Now, if you want to pick up CMYK colors, I suggest you forget about Color Picker Tool and work only with swatches.

Next question will probably be: how do you know the CMYK value of the color you want to create without seeing it on screen?

My answer would be: use a CMYK printed color guide... That would be the most accurate way...

Hope that helps

Vinny

* You can fill a Feature request here: Adobe InDesign: Feature Requests

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vinny38 wrote
… Next question will probably be: how do you know the CMYK value of the color you want to create without seeing it on screen?
My answer would be: use a CMYK printed color guide... That would be the most accurate way...

Hi Vinny,

Barb did a link to a thread where Rob is explaining that Color Picker indeed is able to convert RGB to CMYK using InDesign's Color Managment. I toyed a bit with the panel in InDesign CS6. It's not that intuitive, but you can convert a picked RGB value to CMYK values and also see the managed preview on screen.

Step 1:

Pick a color like: 0, 255, 0 in RGB

A color that cannot be printed with CMYK. The underlying color management tries its best and is suggesting 66, 0, 100, 0 for CMYK.

Step 2:

Set your cursor to any of the CMYK value fields.

Note this, the preview color of the green next to the OK button still does not change.

Step 3

Edit one value, e.g. type in 1 into the K field. Confirm the edit with typing Tab on the keyboard.

Now the preview changes to the color managed color in CMYK:

Regards,
Uwe

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vinny38

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Hi Uwe.

Cool! I didn't know that trick.

Thanks for sharing it :-)

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Barb Binder

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That's how this dialog box was designed. There isn't an option to display the CMYK color space. This thread may be helpful: RGB Color Space to CMYK Color Space view

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~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training