Matthias Betz December 11, 2013 No Comments

CMYK stands for the four printing inks Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and “Key” (Black) . These four inks are the base of four-color printing. For printing colorful photos at least these four inks are required.

CMYK color spaces depend on the printer and the paper used and therefore need color profiles to describe the exact shades.

The main CMYK color spaces are:

ISOcoatedv2
PSOUncoated
GRACol
SWOP

CMYK was last modified: July 6th, 2015 by Matthias Betz

Colour mode

Lisa Kuttler March 30, 2020 No Comments

The colour mode is a setting that determines the depth to which colours can be displayed in an image file. This also affects the size of the file.

The most common colour modes are:

RGB mode (millions of colours)
CMYK mode (colours for four-colour printing)
Lab/CIELab
Index mode (256 colours)
Grayscale (256 shades)
Bitmap (2 colours: Black or white)

Colour mode was last modified: April 29th, 2020 by Lisa Kuttler

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