How to create CMYK AI images

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March 20, 2024
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When generating an AI image in InDesign it is RGB, but I need it to be CMYK for print.

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jmendesign

Inspiring

Maybe you can try to export to Photoshop and convert to CMYK and place again in InDesign.

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Erica30601547mf2wAuthor

Participant

I would probably end up just generating it in another program, I just don't understand why they would have that capability in InDesign if it isn't useful for the program.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Beta testing is an exploration to see if a new feature is workable. AI seems to be the new "gatta have" feature of all software, and you might or might not actually find it useful or workable in your own workflow.

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @Erica30601547mf2w , Illustrator has a single document color space, make sure the document’s File>Document Color Mode is set to CMYK Color.

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Erica30601547mf2wAuthor

Participant

I am looking at the beta for InDesign, not Illustrator.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

In InDesign Beta, instead of bringing in or placing images into your document, you can generate the image with AI. The issue is the images are RGB, and I do not see a way to change them to CMYK. This is an issue if you are packaging your document and you need the images to be CMYK.

This isn't really a problem.

These days it is standard practice to leave RGB art in the native color space with an attached color profile (in this case I preume that would be the InDesign RGB document color space) and let the printer do the CMYK conversion to the correct profile for output at print time.

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