Tuesday, 8 May 2012

CMYK

CMYK - aka Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black



what is it???



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It is short for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black, and pronounced as separate letters. CMYK is a colour model in which all colours are described as a mixture of these four process colours.
 
CMYK is the standard colour model used in offset printing for full-colour documents. Because such printing uses inks of these four basic colours, it is often called four-colour printing.
In contrast, display devices generally use a different colour model called RGB, which stands for Red-Green-Blue

One of the most difficult aspects of desktop publishing in colour is colour matching -- properly converting the RGB colours into CMYK colours so that what gets printed looks the same as what appears on the monitor.





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