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Your videos are a treasure trove of helpful handy tutorials. I have a question; I've created a whole lot of images using affinity designer but didn't select press ready (I used print instead, without realising the difference). If creating a children's book in publisher, is it enough to select press ready in publisher and use my affinity designer images (which were saved as print). Will that make sure the whole document and images within in it are press ready and suitable for print, or does each individual image in designer need to be resaved as press ready? If so is there a quick way of fixing it? I tried to resave my affinity designer documents as press ready but when I open them, they go back to being print! Sorry for the long question, hope it's clear. Thank you!
Hi. First of all I just wanted to say a big thank you for buying me the coffees. That is such a generous thing to do and I appreciate it so much 🙂 if all of your images are illustrations created in RGB and not CMYK then you may notice a slight difference in colours when printing in press ready. The differences in print and press ready are just the colour formats. "Print" has the colour format RGB, and "press ready" uses the colour format CMYK. CMYK is recommended for printing illustrations as the inks in your printer will produce the accurate colour that is in your design, whereas RGB will produce different shades with certain colours and may look a little different to the way you designed it. I hope this makes sense? Just keep in mind that if you plan to print your design, then always work in CMYK. if you're designing for screen (computer, ipad, phones etc) then choose RGB format as the colours are more vibrant. Don't worry if you have created your designs In the Print / RGB setting, you can always go back in to Affinity designer and change the format for each design by opening any of your designs and selecting the move tool, then on the top menu bar select the option "document setup" - choose Colour tab and change the type to press ready and the Colour format from RGB to CYMK, then resave the project. Alternatively, you could try and and use your saved images inside of publisher with the press ready format as the differences in colour shades may not bother you. It really just comes down to how accurate you want your colours to match your design. I'm sorry this is such a long reply, but I hope it helps 🙂
You're very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to get back to me. My files are saved as Print in CMYK with 300 DPI. I thought at the time that would be the best option in order to print my book, as I'd the best quality possible. I didn't realise I needed to select Press ready...I tried changing my documents to Press ready under the document set up option but when I reopen it it still shows as Print for some reason? I also tried starting a new document from scratch and selected Press ready, saved it, then when I reopened it and clicked on document set up it showed Print again? So for some reason it doesn't seem to be working for me...I'm wondering now whether the main thing is to have CMYK (regardless of whether it's in print or press ready), or does press ready make that extra bit of difference?
You're completely right, just creating your designs in CMYK will be absolutely fine. I wouldn't worry about them being saved in the print setting as long as you used the CMYK colour format. However, using RGB or CMYK for printing isn't a rule you have to follow if you don't want to. It's really just a way of ensuring that your printer can replicate the same colours and shades as your design. Your design could still look great either way, if you're not to bothered with your design maybe being a bit or darker or vibrant on certain colours. If you have enough materials, then maybe print a test print in both CYMK and RGB and have a look at the differences and see which you personally prefer.
