RGB to CMYK

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So for album art it is recomended that you convert your images to CMYK, or even better, start out in CMYK. I converted mine after completing it, and was expecting bad results, seeing people kept warning me that it may look bad.

https://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/antispatula/diff.jpg

It doesn't look bad to me. In fact, I think it may look BETTER now! Does anyone know if this is normal for CYMK's to be a little darker than the standard RGB? It would make sense since RGB generates light while CMYK only can reflect it. Thanks!

EDIT: Oh, and ignore the pixelation-ness of the image, its was taken from an image in 300 dpi, and squeezed into the standard 96.
 
CMYK is what you should convert it to if you are going to print it. This will give you the closet true color representation that it will be once printed (since most printers use CMYK coloring).
 
CMYK and RGB have what us graphics geeks call "different color spaces".

It may look different to you because of the way your RGB monitor is trying to interpret a CMYK space or it may result from the CMYK tranformation options when you converted it (getting the black replacement right is critical and takes some judgement calls depending on how you're going to output it).

(I used to run a graphics department for a big catalog company.)
 
hey thanks. My problem rght now is if I even converted it to cmyk or not, I have no idea if I did. Because if I convert the already converted image over and over again, it keeps getting darker and darker.
 
Photo converting is just like resampling sound or making MP3s.

You do it ONCE and only ONCE. As you have found out, effects are cumulative.
 
What did you use to convert to CMYK? Photoshop?

And yea I think the CMYK one looks better too. :)
 
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