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Simply they do not print with CMYK, instead they use spot colors.
Spot colors are pre mixed inks and require a printer to print with one more ink. Its a bit like going to a paint shop and ask for a custom color. You can get quite the range of things from neon, to metallic or even transparent varnish (that creates a shiny spot on top where its applied)
There ...
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here is the technical answer
Saying that the color is #dd0017 is meaningless, unless it is paired with information about what color space you are using! Therefore also conversion from #dd0017 to CMYK is meaningless. With this off our agenda we can start to look what same would mean in your scenario.
When you talk about pure color like #dd0017 you are ...
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Sadly, these very saturated colors can't be reproduced in CMYK.
You could try to make the image in CMYK mode, where you make sure that the red is CMYK(0, 100, 100, 0) and the cyan is CMYK(100, 0, 0, 0). Don't make it in RGB and convert to CMYK as it might pollute the clean inks.
I believe that it's important to only use solid colors (all CMYK values 0% or ...
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There is a lot to unpack here.
An illustrator made a beautiful cover for me in neon, but when we converted the cover from RGB to CMYK what was neon became matte.
No. He did a beautiful cover for you... probably using an incorrect color profile.
He made it on RGB mode which for the screen is ok. But a digital Paint MUST be worked from start using a correct ...
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NOTE: This got way longer than I expected, and I purposely glossed over a LOT of detail. If you'd like me to elaborate, just ask.
PMS Colors - Absolutely brilliant when used as designed for pre-mixed spot color offset printing. You can be assured the color you saw in your Pantone book is very closely represented in your final printed piece.
The problem is, ...
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... if I try to assign a text the color #00FFFF it automatically sets it to #6FCCDC instead of converting it to CMYK.
It is converting it to CMYK...
CMYK and RGB have a different gamut, so converting from one to the other will result in color changes. The hexadecimal colors you have there are an RGB notation, so if that color doesn't exist in the CMYK ...
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Set the tool's blend mode to Normal before painting with it.
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As Billy Kerr wrote, Hex is not a colour space, but a numerical system such as the decimal system, but with base 16.
The differences you notice are probably caused by different RGB colour spaces (such as sRGB vs. AdobeRGB), i. e. the RGB numbers from your graphic designer describe another colour than the mentioned online tool.
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Converting to CMYK won't help you unless you find CMYK specific paint, which I'm not sure exists. Commerical paint manufacturers use a variety of non-standardized ways of expressing colour - so try this web based converter:
http://www.easyrgb.com
This will convert your RGB to a paint colour. That's the free option.
If you want to be really picky, you'll ...
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I will only complement the other answers.
RGB to HEX will give you the same exact color.
RGBA to HEX, will not because we do not even know what is beneath the color. If you put another color the overall color will change... that is the whole point of transparency.
So you have three options.
Convert the RGB values to HEX (without the alpha value) and add ...
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A simple way is opening the PDF in Adobe Acrobat and checking out Overprint Preview.
The button looks like this:
It opens this window:
Under Show you can filter which color mode you want to see. Set it to CMYK to see all CMYK objects in your document and to RGB to see all RGB objects (white objects can be hard to spot this way).
(Whether or not it's the ...
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Yes and no.
Yes:
It offers a smaller range of colors assuming that integers are required for each value. Photoshop, for example, requires HSB values to be integer and will yell at you if you try otherwise:
However, your math seems to be off. You're on the right track with RGB: each value can be an integer from 0-255, so the RGB gamut consists of 256³ or ...
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If you MUST use Cyan and you want something around RGB saturation then you need to work with paper. There are some that reacts very well to certain paints and give them extra boost. They are also usually custom ordered so much pricey than regular print.
Which make sense to eaither print with Pantone (as per Wolff answer) or ask your printhouse for a custom ...
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As per thebodzio's answer, there's plenty of ways to get that colour. No matter what browser you use there will be some sort of colour picker add-on you can get. Alternatively you could take a screen shot and open it in photoshop. Another way is to open developer tools and look at the sites stylesheet, in chrome you could right click the background and hit ...
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The title of the article 'Tauba Auerbach’s RGB Colorspace Atlas Depicts Every Color Imaginable' is misleading.
As you already said RGB is intended for screen display and not print. It is - as far as I am aware - impossible to faithfully reproduce all RGB colors using offset printing. Even if it was possible to reproduce all RGB colors, no RGB color space ...
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RGB is a color space that can only exist with projected light. It's physically impossible to replicate it on paper, which is a reflected light color space.
So no, no printing press can 'print RGB'.
At best, prepress RIP software can convert from RGB to CMYK. In fact, this is what most prepress software workflows do.
How they convert to CMYK can vary ...
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RGB and CMYK are two different colour spaces. RGB is meant to represent the colours that can be produced with light using Red, Green and Blue dots. CMYK is way more limited. It is meant to represent colours that can be created with ink, but not with any ink but specifically mixing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
The RGB space and the CMYK space have ...
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This was confusing at first but the striving for information has led me to a clearer understanding.
RGB vs CMYK
There is clear discrepency between gradients in RGB and CMYK this becomes clearer when you realise the palettes used by each colour mode are drasitcally different.
Colour consists of HUE, SATURATION and BRIGHNESS
RGB
RGB uses a single HUE ...
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The design you describe would likely be printed using spot colors. One of the most popular spot color library is called the Pantone Matching System (PMS), if you're using Photoshop or Illustrator then the swatches are built right in to the application. However, there's no guaranteeing that your printer will use that library in house.
The golden rule for ...
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Matching colours between screen and print is a complex and sometimes impossible task. Due to the nature of light (Screens, RGB) versus ink (CMYK, Pantones, etc) and the fact that pretty much every monitor will display the colour slightly differently and print will look different in different lights. This kind of colour management is a job in itself.
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Although I never heard the term 'pastel colour space', it looks like you're talking about tints, tones and shades of a hue, in HSB colour space. The term you're looking for is shade.
The pure hue has S(aturation) and B(rightness) each equal to 100%. Adding any amount of white reduces saturation, while keeping the brightness at 100%, yielding a tint of the ...
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RGB color is for light-producing situations, and is additive, which means that you are adding light of one color to light of another color, resulting in more light and a mixed color.
CMYK color is for light-absorbing situations, and is subtractive, which means that you are absorbing light instead of reflecting it, and mixing two pigments results in ...
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RGB is an additive color model using light directly from its source before it is reflected off of an object. In essence, you start in darkness and because you are directly viewing the light source, the wavelengths can be added to each other to create colors.
CMYK and 'real life colors' both use a subtractive method to display color. In essence, you begin ...
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Real color is a quite complex subject. In essence color is something that happens somewhere between your cornea and brain. Simplifying this a bit color is what you sense when some photons interact with the three color sensing structures in your eye. Other definitions exist but they fail on many levels.
Photons can reach your eye trough many processes. They ...
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Your question makes sense but there's no answer. These are all arbitrary names created by man to help classify spectrums. Green doesn't magically end at point X and start point Y. There's simply put too many factors and human interpretation.
For example, a BBC Documentary came out a while back discussing the Himba Tribe which has far more names for colors ...
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Direct to garment is a digital print. If you do not have the specific CMYK profiles it is recomended that you send the file in RGB with R0G0B0 values as black.
A lot of people think that a CMYK output is a must when sending to print. It is not. Sometimes you need to avoid it.
It is a must when sending it to a CMYK separation, like offset print or color ...
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No, you can't expect RGB colors to translate exactly to CMYK for printing.
Monitors make colors with light. Light can be any intensity. Ink is made of solid physical colors from things like rocks, which are ground up and put in a medium like oil or latex. You spread ink on paper and it's never going to be as bright as a color on a monitor.
Offset ...
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When printed, the RGB color that came from CMYK will be converted back to the same original CMYK color
Nop... It will not.
There are several reasons. Color profiles, changes in gamut, simulations on the screen...
But I will only address 1.
A CMYK value has 4 variables (C+M+Y+K). A given color can actually be created using a combination of inks, mainly ...
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No. There is no loss converting decimal RGB or RGBa colours to hexadecimal.
Forget online converters
In RGBa images, colours require 4 decimal or hexadecimal numbers, one for each channel. Each should be an integer from 0 to 255 (or 00 to FF). The alpha channel, like the other channels, should really be an integer between 0 and 255, and not a decimal ...
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The image in your post already contains noise/artefacts — maybe it's because it was compressed by GDSE. Here's one of the image channel compressed with Levels:
If your original image doesn't have this noise and contains only pure colors, the issue you have is probably with color profile. Default color setting in Photoshop has a Use Dither conversion option —...
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