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CMYK

I was designing my photo book yesterday. In my excitement, I repeated the mistake that many designers do, which was to go straight to the computer and start designing without first doing any planning on paper. A few hours in, realising my mistake and that the best way to visualise the sequence of my photo book was to printout all the photos and lay them all out on the floor. I took a trip to the photo lab.

When I picked up my prints I was in for a surprise. A dozen of the prints looked like they had been digitally crossed processed. Their colours looked completely wacky. I’ve never seen digital prints turn out this way unintentionally. The photo technician explained that it was because those photos had been covered to the CMYK colour space. I had converted them for my book. He set the files back to RGB and the images printed out disappointingly normally. I left in a hurry in case he decided to charge me for the reprinting.