Color Mode for KDP Children's Book - RGB or CMYK? 

This is literally the ONLY video on YT that someone explains their process so hat's off to you for sharing your wisdom. I agree with all but one point. I'd say if you are designing for a catch-all then you really want to be illustrating in RGB first so that you can utilise the full potential of the sRGB colour range for eBooks and then go in and finetune your images for print after a CMYK conversion.

It's the first time I understand the difference of RGB and CMYK

Omg thank you so much!!! I just made book illustrations and wanted to share them on Behance and it turned out to be an issue since my files were in CMYK. Thank you for explaining this!

Excellent explanation. Thank you!

Thank you!! I have 2 days looking why the colors changed and now you explained perfect! On Canva you can choose this option as well. Thanks.

Thank you so much for the excellent explanation.

Thank you!

Good and clear video

Thank you so much, You explained clearly 💖💖💖

Very well explained!

Thanks for the info

Very helpful, thanks!

I like you.. your bery helpful and nice.. i can tell you Love helping kids also..

thank you

That was very cool now I know how I can change my procreate images to CMYK

In Procreate you do have the option to format a canvas in different Color Profiles (Color Modes). I didn't know which to choose, for my Children's book illustrations... and your video was super helpful. Thanks for a great video!!!

Thank u🌷☺️

Thanks for the information. What type of color profile you recommend to use in Photoshop when you're working in CMYK? (Coated FOGRA39, etc...)

Nice

Hey, I watch your videos and I love your explanations! you have an amazing ability to simplify all the complicated stuff. Thank you! I would like to ask you a question. once I convert my file (image

Very helpful, but I see that Photoshop allows me to choose a range of options for conversion to CMYK. The one that is on there now is US Web Coated SWOP V2, and it is really, really bad on the colors. An ideas which of the many options PS offers is the most accurate one for KDP? KDP says nothing about it as as best I can tell, just says to convert of CMYK.

Thank you for this video, I had a question though, when I download my art from Canva using CMYK, the art gets darker when I view the children's book manuscript. It appears to look closer to how I created it using RGB, so is there a way to know how to fix this so it doesn't get darker? If not, would it be ok to just use RGB when uploading to Amazon KDP? Or is CMYK the option that I should defiantly use? Im open to any suggestions from anyone here btw, thanks.

Thank you so much😍😍 I want to upload my books on Amazon Kindel but I was so confused about the printing proscess, so Now I have Canva account which have CMYK option😍🥰 but one question please, my book cover is blue, when I save the file as CMYK it turn a little darker, I don't really like it, but if you say that CMYK is better for kids books I will do it for sure, but is there any way to choose a colour I want and not change after saving the file?

Hi Heather, how about coloring pages? Grayscale?

How accurate is affinity photo when you convert them (procreate) from RBG to CMYK?

I have procreate, and I purchased Affinity Photo, to adjust from RGB to CMYK and then I got stuck and didn’t know how to export it. Plus if I export it, how will I know that the setting has changed from RGB to CMYK? If you know the answers to these questions or if someone else knows, please let me know. If there’s a video on this topic please tell me what’s the title of the video so I can search for it. Thank you all.

What about in Canva

My Photoshop doesn't have the option for CMYK? I've searched everywhere... Photoshop 2020 Elements.

I think there's a mistake about the printing process. Amazon use a digital printing for our kdp books and not a CMYK "Offset" machine, because the first process is used for the pod, and the second one is used only when we need to print a thousands copies of the same book. And the two printing machines and process are completely different. So, are you sure Amazon use a CMYK printing process for a unique digital print ?

I write and illustrate children’s books and self publish on Amazon. I am so frustrated with creating, colorful and bright illustrations, only to find they come out Dull and lifeless in print form. I heard that if you export your picture in PSD, it gives you an idea of how it will come out in print. I did this and saw how lifeless my pictures would print out…it was so dramatically different than what was on my screen! I fooled around with color brightness and saturation and exported it again as a PSD…but it didn’t keep the changes I made and came out as lifeless as before. Can you give advise how to make your illustrations bright, happy and full of life in printed form? What is the solution? I waste more time and money with fighting with my illustrations! Some people say, you should export illustrations as PSD, but my formatter always asks for JPEG. So…what is best? Thank you for your advise….would like to have more fun instead of fighting with the process!

i use rgb its ok ??