So I just got my first graphic design job, and I was really nervous so I watched your videos as a refresher course before my first day. You are such an awesome resource! I felt so much better afterwards and my first day went great :) thank you for posting these videos!
I work at a print shop... and this video is "spot" on. Great content... Tons of useful information here. Thanks for talking about bleed and outlining text... I was beginning to think that they don't teach these things in art school because nobody sends their art with bleed or text in outlines... GRRR!
You're video are very much fantastic! I'm currently a Production Planner of Printing Company in the Philippines. My job is more on scheduling the run of Printing Department everyday. Additionally, I am the one who is responsible in aligning the proper color to each unit based on my schedule. So that the operation will run smoothly without loosing the time of our production.
Hands down think this is the best and most informative video on CMYK colour, + that I've ever watched on UA-cam. You took me back to the days when I was involved in Lithography. Great job Karen. Keep up the good work.
I just learned of you from the truth or fail you did and this is like a secret hidden treasure of a channel for me...I hope to follow art after highschool and this is all stuff i know nothing or little of.
This is brilliant, you don't know how excited I was when I saw this in my subscription box. I know know a bit about design and printing but I understand it a lot more now it's been explained so well. Great work.
This video is brilliant! Snappy and informative and just the right length of time to keep my attention. I'm looking forward to checking out the rest of your graphic design-related vids. Keep up the good work Karen!
Hi Karen. Your tutorial was very helpful. Eventhough i prefer Gimp over Photoshop for the obvious reason, your tips are helpful. I think all tutorials should be like your videos,precise, crisp and to the point.Most of the people out there who do tutorials for youtube are very very amature.
Hy sweety! My name is Tamisa, brazilian teacher, I teach programs like illustrator, photoshop, indesign and work with graphic design. Just want to say that love your videos, most of the material that or produced sometimes shows wrong information or is too much complicated. I will recomend it to students that want to learn more and right! thank you :)
Hey Karen! Thought you did a brilliant job with all of your vids. Have watched a few other graphics design vids so far but they weren't as interactive as yours so you definitely grabbed my attention even though I have zero to very few knowledge of what you're talking about. Thanks a lot for these tutorials I've learnt a bunch!
I love this chick! strait and to the point without making it seem intimidating. I subbed her from the first vid I saw. YOU GO GURL!!!!!!!! Keep em coming, watching your vids are helping my photoshop and illustrator skillz.
You are very knowledgeable and covered the entire spectrum of what any money making graphic/print professional should know (including the first video).
Hi Karen, I accidentally watched your video about CYMK. I learned a lot from it. Thank you for taking the time to explain. I am going to watch other videos by you
You are such a great reminder of all the art/printer/ink stuff I learned some 20+ years ago. I bet I'd have done better in college if my educators had been as entertaining as you are.
Love your tutorials!! For some reasons I am willing to stick with your videos instead of others of the similar kind. Thanks again! now off to the colour theory one you have done.
This was actually really, really informative, and the whole CMYK vs RGB effect was actually something I had thought about before but never really understood, so thanks Karen for teaching us about this! Also, FIRST! (In reference to your tweet).
YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION!! lol Im not yet a graphic designer student...I will but not now, currently a photographer (amateur) and I found your tutorial are really helpful! especially the colour theory. Thanks
Great video, just to let you know I saw some of your content a long time ago but I ended up specifically in this video thanks to my school. They are using it as homework for us to learn the basics of printing.
I am new to all of this and your video was very informative. Thank you for breaking down the information in a format that was easy to grasp and follow and understand.
I’ve just gotten into printing (got some machines cheap that looked way too cool to scrap) and learning what I can and from where I can... found this very informative and useful, thank you
That was great! It's a great summary and well worded. I work in a print shop and repeating the same thing over and over when people don't understand why their fancy business cards won't print in bright pink! Or why their leaflets sometimes have a tiny white edge because they didn't supply bleed and refused to learn what crops and bleed were!?
Always helpful information, thanks for taking the time. I felt this was a bit too long... or maybe is just me being tired. but am glad I can always re-play them!!!
Your videos are awesome! I'm going to start college in the fall with a major in graphic design and I already have four years of personal experience and two years of digital studio classes from my high school under my belt, but your videos still help me out a ton! Keep up the amazing work, because I learn something new every time I watch your videos! :)
I SO wish I could have sent this video to my schools when I worked in yearbook printing. I had to explain countless times why you can't use a 2 inch image on the internet to print across an 11 x 17 layout. Also explaining why the color comes out different when you do mixes versus spot, etc.
Thanks very much you don't know how important are these information for me because I'm a beginner in (graphic design) and I learned so much from you today and I was literally taking notes these are so helpful and useful Hidden info ,thank you.
Thanks so much for this video! I am about to embark on a digital media project that we will have to print eventually, so this is definitely going to be a good resource for me!
Hi! A little bit of many subjects in a box XD Printing processes and images managment are difficult issues, especially for 'non-graphic' people; at least I've always struggled with people who don't know a thing of those. I like to teach, but sometimes get annoyed when the same people ask many times which I've already explained to them. Anyways, as a graphic designer (professional), it's my job! :) By the way, the K meaning (Key instead of BlacK) and the using of rich black instead of whole 100% CMYK black, those were the most interesting subjects for me. I'll search for more about them. Thanks for sharing! Have a nice day!
Cool! Always when I am looking for some information about something over the internet I am hoping to find something like your video. Fast, concise, on topic ...
you are fantastic - thank you so much for these videos! I'm a graphic design student going into my last year of school and I swear I learn more from you than I do at school. Great stuff!
Speaking as a printer with 18 years of experience, your best bet is to keep the layered PSD file at home and send the flattened version to the printer, typically in TIF format. With the sizes you describe, at 400dpi, that's still a big file, but not as big as the PSD. If there are corrections that need to be made, you can make them to your layered file and send a new flattened version to the printer, since many printers prefer that changes are made by the customer these days.
I shouldn't find this so interesting should I?! That was a good tutorial I liked the level of depth you went in to and especially the explanation of how CMYK works.. I always knew one was for print one was for screen but didn't know why..
Hi Karen, quick question. What if I want to print CMYK in a black surface, like a shirt for example, how can I set it up on Photoshop? Thanks (Great tutorials btw)
learning prepress at my job. I am a digital Press Operator. I would hope more people would watch your vids because you should see some of the files I get that are "print ready" but they are not.
OH MAN! This was FANTASTIC! So many things clearly explained! I'm a photographer doing work for a nonprofit in the area using specific shades of glass... and the problem comes when I need to go CMYK (hence finding this video) I have found some tut videos how to use specific desaturating techniques to fix a lot of the color flattening, but still was at a loss as to *why* said colors were mudding/flattening. You vid rocked for explanations! THANK YOU. I know this is old, but could you go over any techniques you might use taking an electric blue (my dirge) in RGB and somewhat matching it in CMYK?
Hi! unfortunatley the CMYK spectrum is not nearlry as rich as the RGB one so you have to settle around a flat version of the colour you seek. You can always use special colours for printing but it is much more expensive. A special colour (spot colour) cand be metallic, electric etc
Refreshing prepress video and great tips for graphic designers. @5:49 and forward, keep in mind (and perhaps an idea for a future video) that tools like Markzware FlightCheck can package and preflight all fonts and used artwork in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files, not to mention InDesign, Quark and even the resulting PDF. This way you can deliver an .AI file natively, without necessarily outlining fonts - very important if the printer needs to make big textual changes later. Thanks!
Hey Karen, I watched your video back when i was a college student. Today I had a printing color issue with a client, and I thought about this video! Thus I'm watching it again after many many years! Can I ask you a quick question, how to check if a printed physical object matches pantone color? Do i just hold the object against a pantone color chart to check them visually?
After you change the mode of a photograph in Photoshop from RGB to CMYK so that the images can be printed by a commercial printer, do you adjust the colors in CMYK to more closely resemble the original RGB? I would love to see a video on this adjustment process. Thanks!
Thanks love this. can you explain more on pantone color. If I design a logo how can I decide which pantone color to use. should I decide RGB/CMYK on screen first than look on pantone color book for the nearest color. or first CMYK than look on pantone book which match the CMYK that we have decided. or What is the process?
This is great! Thank you. I have this question: how to prepare a photo (taken with a camera) to be printed on a t-shirt? how you fix RGB? I am working with GIMP and it has only the option to maximize RBG. I am a beginner and try to figure out how to prepare a photo or an image for printing and keep great colors inside. Thank you. All the best.
Hi Karen!, thank you for this video, i actually get it all. I would really like to see a video about tshirts making process, from the selection of the image till the shirt is done. I know that you make your own t's and they're excellent!
These vids are really helping me with my Graphic revision. I just did a lesson yesterday on colour and this will help me revise, in briton K stands for black all the time but even though you are from the US and lots of words are diffrent than the UK these vids are really helping so thanks! I don't supose you could do a vid on David Carson?
Very interesting.. you might want to include rotogravure which is continuous tone. There is rotogravure, halftone and offset. Regarding black, there is also under color removal, replacing the expensive colored inks with black to reduce production costs. Enjoying your videos.. thank you.
I'm doing a lot of graphic design in high school, and i always wonder why the colors seem "off" from my screen to when i print. Thanks for telling me how to fix that!
Great vid. I work at a printing center at my school where we deal with this all the time. Our clients are grad students in the sciences, not designers, so they use Powerpoint to create their posters 'cause it's easier. Powerpoint, of course, is for screen, not print -- every so often there's a problem with printing after a PDF conversion. We love when someone brings in a nice .ai, no problemo. A video about the basics of Adobe Illustrator would be nice, although perhaps too daunting :X
So I just got my first graphic design job, and I was really nervous so I watched your videos as a refresher course before my first day. You are such an awesome resource! I felt so much better afterwards and my first day went great :) thank you for posting these videos!
I work at a print shop... and this video is "spot" on. Great content... Tons of useful information here. Thanks for talking about bleed and outlining text... I was beginning to think that they don't teach these things in art school because nobody sends their art with bleed or text in outlines... GRRR!
You're video are very much fantastic! I'm currently a Production Planner of Printing Company in the Philippines. My job is more on scheduling the run of Printing Department everyday. Additionally, I am the one who is responsible in aligning the proper color to each unit based on my schedule. So that the operation will run smoothly without loosing the time of our production.
Hands down think this is the best and most informative video on CMYK colour, + that I've ever watched on UA-cam. You took me back to the days when I was involved in Lithography. Great job Karen. Keep up the good work.
i have never wanted to like a video so much just based on the title alone. Karen Kavitt you are my hero. so much useful information!
I just learned of you from the truth or fail you did and this is like a secret hidden treasure of a channel for me...I hope to follow art after highschool and this is all stuff i know nothing or little of.
This is brilliant, you don't know how excited I was when I saw this in my subscription box.
I know know a bit about design and printing but I understand it a lot more now it's been explained so well. Great work.
Currently trying to set up my own business. These videos are an ABSOLUTE GODSEND for promotions and design. Thanks Karen!
This video is brilliant! Snappy and informative and just the right length of time to keep my attention. I'm looking forward to checking out the rest of your graphic design-related vids. Keep up the good work Karen!
I work in a commercial print shop in Ottawa and I found your videos are quite useful. Thanks
Hi Karen. Your tutorial was very helpful. Eventhough i prefer Gimp over Photoshop for the obvious reason, your tips are helpful. I think all tutorials should be like your videos,precise, crisp and to the point.Most of the people out there who do tutorials for youtube are very very amature.
I have a job interview for a Print Production Assistant today and this really really helped me understand color and printing. Thank you thank you :)
Hy sweety! My name is Tamisa, brazilian teacher, I teach programs like illustrator, photoshop, indesign and work with graphic design. Just want to say that love your videos, most of the material that or produced sometimes shows wrong information or is too much complicated. I will recomend it to students that want to learn more and right! thank you :)
What a gem from old UA-cam. 💯❤️
Hey Karen! Thought you did a brilliant job with all of your vids. Have watched a few other graphics design vids so far but they weren't as interactive as yours so you definitely grabbed my attention even though I have zero to very few knowledge of what you're talking about. Thanks a lot for these tutorials I've learnt a bunch!
I love this chick! strait and to the point without making it seem intimidating. I subbed her from the first vid I saw. YOU GO GURL!!!!!!!! Keep em coming, watching your vids are helping my photoshop and illustrator skillz.
Karen, you TOTALLY need more viewers. I love watching your videos, I learn a BUNCH from you!
Very informative info in a short video. You made a subject which is often misunderstood and wrongly explained easy to understand. Great job!
You are very knowledgeable and covered the entire spectrum of what any money making graphic/print professional should know (including the first video).
Great presentation. I've spent 30 years in the newspaper biz, both on the print side and digital, and I still learned something.
Hi Karen,
I accidentally watched your video about CYMK. I learned a lot from it.
Thank you for taking the time to explain.
I am going to watch other videos by you
You are such a great reminder of all the art/printer/ink stuff I learned some 20+ years ago. I bet I'd have done better in college if my educators had been as entertaining as you are.
Karen, great video. You are informative while staying passionate and that makes it fun to watch you. I learned a lot and I appreciate it.
Love your tutorials!! For some reasons I am willing to stick with your videos instead of others of the similar kind. Thanks again! now off to the colour theory one you have done.
This was actually really, really informative, and the whole CMYK vs RGB effect was actually something I had thought about before but never really understood, so thanks Karen for teaching us about this!
Also, FIRST! (In reference to your tweet).
YOU ARE MY INSPIRATION!! lol Im not yet a graphic designer student...I will but not now, currently a photographer (amateur) and I found your tutorial are really helpful! especially the colour theory. Thanks
Great video, just to let you know I saw some of your content a long time ago but I ended up specifically in this video thanks to my school. They are using it as homework for us to learn the basics of printing.
I am new to all of this and your video was very informative. Thank you for breaking down the information in a format that was easy to grasp and follow and understand.
I’ve just gotten into printing (got some machines cheap that looked way too cool to scrap) and learning what I can and from where I can... found this very informative and useful, thank you
Very informative info in a short video. You made a subject which is misunderstood and wrongly explained easy to understand. Great job!!!
My hero! I have been trying to find an easy way to explain CMYK to my students.
Where are you in my last semesters? Love the Videos!
That was great! It's a great summary and well worded. I work in a print shop and repeating the same thing over and over when people don't understand why their fancy business cards won't print in bright pink!
Or why their leaflets sometimes have a tiny white edge because they didn't supply bleed and refused to learn what crops and bleed were!?
Love all your info. You have enriched my creative side. Thank you for your time and your knowledge. Love your very informative videos.
As a press operator this shed light on the pre press process for me. Thanks!
Always helpful information, thanks for taking the time. I felt this was a bit too long... or maybe is just me being tired. but am glad I can always re-play them!!!
Your videos are awesome! I'm going to start college in the fall with a major in graphic design and I already have four years of personal experience and two years of digital studio classes from my high school under my belt, but your videos still help me out a ton! Keep up the amazing work, because I learn something new every time I watch your videos! :)
This is so SO helpful, I'm a graphic design student and this is really clearing things up for me!!
I know nothing about graphic design but what you said about changing the DPI in photoshop was totally helpful. Thank you!
very short yet informative! this is will wonderful to share with my students as a review. thanks for the hard work.
I SO wish I could have sent this video to my schools when I worked in yearbook printing. I had to explain countless times why you can't use a 2 inch image on the internet to print across an 11 x 17 layout. Also explaining why the color comes out different when you do mixes versus spot, etc.
Thanks very much you don't know how important are these information for me because I'm a beginner in (graphic design) and I learned so much from you today and I was literally taking notes these are so helpful and useful Hidden info ,thank you.
I wish you were a teacher because I would totally be in your class. You make this stuff really interesting without going on too much!
My head is spinning! So glad I got into web design! I rarely have to deal with printing work. Great stuff, Karen!
Thanks so much for this video! I am about to embark on a digital media project that we will have to print eventually, so this is definitely going to be a good resource for me!
Hi!
A little bit of many subjects in a box XD Printing processes and images managment are difficult issues, especially for 'non-graphic' people; at least I've always struggled with people who don't know a thing of those. I like to teach, but sometimes get annoyed when the same people ask many times which I've already explained to them. Anyways, as a graphic designer (professional), it's my job! :)
By the way, the K meaning (Key instead of BlacK) and the using of rich black instead of whole 100% CMYK black, those were the most interesting subjects for me. I'll search for more about them.
Thanks for sharing!
Have a nice day!
Simply explained and packed full of knowledge! Thank You Karen! :)
Cool! Always when I am looking for some information about something over the internet I am hoping to find something like your video. Fast, concise, on topic ...
Great video, could you make one on digital vs traditional printing, maybe on embossing and foil, more snazzy options for print?
Great information. This should be a mandatory watch for all graphic designers.
WOW! I am a prepress technician and I wish our customers would watch this video. It would save me a lot of headaches.
you are fantastic - thank you so much for these videos! I'm a graphic design student going into my last year of school and I swear I learn more from you than I do at school. Great stuff!
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Speaking as a printer with 18 years of experience, your best bet is to keep the layered PSD file at home and send the flattened version to the printer, typically in TIF format. With the sizes you describe, at 400dpi, that's still a big file, but not as big as the PSD. If there are corrections that need to be made, you can make them to your layered file and send a new flattened version to the printer, since many printers prefer that changes are made by the customer these days.
What a cute nerd. I learnt way more in this video than I did in my art class.
I shouldn't find this so interesting should I?! That was a good tutorial I liked the level of depth you went in to and especially the explanation of how CMYK works.. I always knew one was for print one was for screen but didn't know why..
Why the hell did I pay to go to college!? I learned more in your 7 minute video than an entire semester!
Great Job!
Hi Karen, quick question. What if I want to print CMYK in a black surface, like a shirt for example, how can I set it up on Photoshop? Thanks (Great tutorials btw)
Love this video! Thank you so much Karen. You're amazing at explaining and illustrating these concepts and your style is mega charming. All the best.
Hmmm, pretty interesting stuff. I actually learned a few new things. Nice work Ms. Kavett
Thanks, Karen. These videos are fascinating. I know nothing about graphic design, so I'm really enjoying the crash course. :)
learning prepress at my job. I am a digital Press Operator. I would hope more people would watch your vids because you should see some of the files I get that are "print ready" but they are not.
I like the way you explain. I'm a printer myself. Very spot on.. keep it coming.
Thank you, I never paid attention to these details. This video was very helpful for me :)
OH MAN! This was FANTASTIC! So many things clearly explained! I'm a photographer doing work for a nonprofit in the area using specific shades of glass... and the problem comes when I need to go CMYK (hence finding this video) I have found some tut videos how to use specific desaturating techniques to fix a lot of the color flattening, but still was at a loss as to *why* said colors were mudding/flattening. You vid rocked for explanations! THANK YOU.
I know this is old, but could you go over any techniques you might use taking an electric blue (my dirge) in RGB and somewhat matching it in CMYK?
same here....;-)
Hi! unfortunatley the CMYK spectrum is not nearlry as rich as the RGB one so you have to settle around a flat version of the colour you seek. You can always use special colours for printing but it is much more expensive. A special colour (spot colour) cand be metallic, electric etc
Thanks for posting these videos! As a new Graphic Design student, I find them very helpful :)
You could really be a GREAT teacher! Bravo!
Yay! I knew a lot of this stuff, but I learned a lot, too! I like all of these graphic design-related tutorials. :D
You rock. I am showing your vids to my class this semester. :) KEEP POSTING!
Wow. You actually make something I have never been interested in sound interesting. More, more!
How about your favourite photo touch ups?
This was SO USEFUL.
I'm not even joking.
You're my hero.
Refreshing prepress video and great tips for graphic designers. @5:49 and forward, keep in mind (and perhaps an idea for a future video) that tools like Markzware FlightCheck can package and preflight all fonts and used artwork in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop files, not to mention InDesign, Quark and even the resulting PDF. This way you can deliver an .AI file natively, without necessarily outlining fonts - very important if the printer needs to make big textual changes later. Thanks!
Great video. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge. Looking forward to learning more from you. - Joe
Hey Karen, I watched your video back when i was a college student. Today I had a printing color issue with a client, and I thought about this video! Thus I'm watching it again after many many years! Can I ask you a quick question, how to check if a printed physical object matches pantone color? Do i just hold the object against a pantone color chart to check them visually?
Well well well, you covered everything i needed to know as I was preparing my print files. Thank you, nicely done!
After you change the mode of a photograph in Photoshop from RGB to CMYK so that the images can be printed by a commercial printer, do you adjust the colors in CMYK to more closely resemble the original RGB? I would love to see a video on this adjustment process. Thanks!
wow. i got more info from this video, than 4 yrs of design school. good job girlfriend!
your videos always impress me! awesome job(once again) :) i enjoy learning new things.
cool video! I'm new at this and you help keep it simple to understand. thanks!
Thank you thank you thank you !!!
I learned soo much ..
Keep up the awesome work ....
Thanks love this. can you explain more on pantone color. If I design a logo how can I decide which pantone color to use. should I decide RGB/CMYK on screen first than look on pantone color book for the nearest color. or first CMYK than look on pantone book which match the CMYK that we have decided. or What is the process?
Come teach our noob's, and our vet's! Absolutely fantastic video!
KB
Great video! You have answered so many questions! Keep up the great work:)
Awesome! Thank you for sharing! Can you do a video on format options for exporting?
You're very pretty, I enjoy listening to you talk about color theory.
This is great! Thank you. I have this question: how to prepare a photo (taken with a camera) to be printed on a t-shirt? how you fix RGB? I am working with GIMP and it has only the option to maximize RBG. I am a beginner and try to figure out how to prepare a photo or an image for printing and keep great colors inside. Thank you. All the best.
karen kavett is a very easy to understand.
Hi Karen!, thank you for this video, i actually get it all. I would really like to see a video about tshirts making process, from the selection of the image till the shirt is done. I know that you make your own t's and they're excellent!
These vids are really helping me with my Graphic revision. I just did a lesson yesterday on colour and this will help me revise, in briton K stands for black all the time but even though you are from the US and lots of words are diffrent than the UK these vids are really helping so thanks! I don't supose you could do a vid on David Carson?
Very interesting.. you might want to include rotogravure which is continuous tone. There is rotogravure, halftone and offset. Regarding black, there is also under color removal, replacing the expensive colored inks with black to reduce production costs. Enjoying your videos.. thank you.
i love your vids! they're so great! do you think you could do a video tutorial on video editing for beginners?
Please please please do a video on the graphics printing processes, your videos are incredible! :)
This is exactly what I was looking for! Very informative. Thanks!!
Thanks for this refresher course, Ms. Kavett! High five, up top...*clap*
I'm doing a lot of graphic design in high school, and i always wonder why the colors seem "off" from my screen to when i print. Thanks for telling me how to fix that!
Awesome Vid not a bunch of un-needed jargon straight to the point and very informative Hey you should do a video on how to make a good you tube video
Thank you so much Karen for this video, it was well explained
Intro to CMYK & Printing
Great job of explaining it.
Thanks
I loved how you explain things, you really helped me a lot!!!!!!!
You are amazing. So much good information and no fluff.
Great vid. I work at a printing center at my school where we deal with this all the time. Our clients are grad students in the sciences, not designers, so they use Powerpoint to create their posters 'cause it's easier. Powerpoint, of course, is for screen, not print -- every so often there's a problem with printing after a PDF conversion. We love when someone brings in a nice .ai, no problemo.
A video about the basics of Adobe Illustrator would be nice, although perhaps too daunting :X