RGB Workflow

(Extracted from: 2012 DEER Poster Design to Print Series)

Most creative retouching, color correction and image editing has switched from CMYK to RGB. Photography works in red, green and blue light, so it’s simply more logical to edit photos in RGB. Photoshop tools and filters are more powerful in RGB than CMYK. Creative edits are more valuable because they are more easily repurposed.

Another advantage of working in RGB is that it allows the printer to optimize the CMYK conversion to suit their own particular printing process. Although some printers still ask for CMYK files, increasingly printers are requesting files in RGB.