![]() (Caveat: If it’s a photographic image, and you plan on using Photoshop to edit it again in the future, and if you don’t have the original RGB image, then you probably do want to embed the profile. (For example, a 50% cyan in the image is passed through to the printer or PDF as 50%.) This is generally okay, and in fact usually a good thing! But if you don’t know InDesign works that way, you may have unreasonable or erroneous expectations.īecause InDesign is going to ignore the profile, you can probably turn off that Embed Color Profile checkbox and save a little disk space, especially if the image is small, like an icon or logo. The cyan on a sheetfed press printing on coated bright white paper is going to be really different than the cyan smooshed onto a giant roll of newsprint.īut here’s the rub: When you place that CMYK image into InDesign, it almost always just ignores the embedded color profile! And when you print or export a PDF, InDesign almost always just passes the CMYK values through, without making any adjustments for where you’re printing. This is important because there are lots of different cyans, and so on. For example, a CMYK color profile describes which CMYK colors - that is, what does cyan look like, what does magenta look like, and so on. ![]() Have you ever saved a tiny little graphic, like 20K, from Photoshop and the file is 500K on disk? It’s because of that checkbox!Ī color profile describes the color in the file. The problem with this is that CMYK profiles can add a lot to a file size. But anyway, back to the topic at hand… if you do convert to CMYK…) When you save the file, Photoshop will ask if you want to embed the color profile:īy default this option is selected, and so almost everyone embeds the CMYK profile in their images. ![]() Claudia McCue and I are working on an article that explains why. (Note that I rarely convert images to CMYK, preferring to leave them in RGB mode when I place them in InDesign. Let’s say you convert an image to CMYK in Photoshop. If you don’t know what that means, let me explain: Here’s something every InDesign user should know, but almost none do: InDesign, by default, completely ignores CMYK profiles you have embedded in your images.
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