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ladymonarchy
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November 28, 2019
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Converting Blacks from CMYK to RGB

  • November 28, 2019
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First things first, I'm working in Photoshop CC 2020, on a Macbook Pro 2019 16". I just bought this computer yesterday and am still getting everything set up.

 

I created an image for a client's social media and pulled their logo (which is pure black) from a vector file in Illustrator and pasted it into a Photoshop image. I double checked the image in Illustrator, which shows true black #000000, but when I paste it into Photoshop it's changing the black to [Moderator note :Link removed and replaced with text : 231f20 ] I know I can just rasterize the image and turn it black which is easy enough, but I swear on my old Macbook Pro my blacks stayed black. Is there some sort of setting I need to check off? I looked through my preferences and colour settings, but can't seem to find anything. 

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NB, colourmanagement
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NB, colourmanagementCommunity Expert
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November 28, 2019

Hi

if you want 'pure' black in RGB for screen use, then the RGB value would be R=0, G=0, B=0

[or if you want hex, yes, 000000

for web the image / text will need to be rasterised anyway, so I suggest you adjust it to those values

 

I hope this helps

if so, please "like" my reply and if you're OK now, please mark it as "correct", so that others who have similar issues can see the solution

thanks

neil barstow, colourmanagement.net

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Stephen Marsh
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Stephen MarshCommunity Expert
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November 28, 2019

This is a simple colour management issue. CMYK blacks, whether K only or not have a lighter value than 0r0g0b and "proper, modern" ICC colour profiles respect this.

 

There are many ways to work around this problem.

 

One way is to assign the Photoshop 5 Default CMYK colour profile to the CMYK document, then convert to RGB.

 

Another is to use the Selective Color command to adjust blacks to r0g0b0.

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