I need to change the background color to a CMYK breakdown to match other pieces. It's for a Trade show wall. My black & white photobook looks quite dull out of print. I think I am misunderstanding RGB → CMYK conversion. The process for me was RAW to TIFF to Scribus (open source publishing tool) to PDF/X-3. With this PDF format, if I understand correctly, the RGB to CMYK conversion is done by the printer, with certain settings contained in the colour Run that fix and this color issue is gone. This is from a previous post on using Excel charts and converting RGB black: >Open PDF in Acrobat Pro and Convert Colors (under Print Production). >Set appropriate color conversion profile and check the Preserve Black and the Promote Gray to CMYK Black settings. The Document Setup menu in Affinity Designer allows you to set various properties of your document, including its embedded color profile. Once opened, navigate to the Color tab and change the Color Format dropdown from “RGB” to “CMYK” and click OK. Navigate to the Color tab to adjust your document’s color settings. I will attach a pdf I exported from the afdesign file and a screenshot from when I upload it to the newspaper and get an RGB warning. A friend who use Adobe Creative software was able to export the PDF without a RGB warning. So I know that Adobe software is able to change RGB transparency to CMYK. Can Affinity Designer? test2.pdf Step 1: Visit rgb2cmyk.org. First of all, you have to open your browser and visit rgb2cmyk.org. You can access this website both from mobile and computer. This is a free online RGB to CMYK converter tool. Here is the homepage of that website. Using that website, you can convert RGB to CMYK without losing color. If you’re still wondering whether you should be designing in RGB or CMYK format when it comes to print on demand products, then this video has the answers. W RGB colours may look good on screen but they will need converting to CMYK for printing. This applies to any colours used in the artwork and to the imported images and files. If you are supplying artwork as a high resolution, press ready PDF then this conversion can be done when creating the PDF. If you are supplying artwork in its original The easiest and most reliable way is to convert all colors to CMYK at export or print time. I assume you are going to send either PDF, EPS or PostScript file to your printer provider. Set "Output colors as:" to "CMYK" in either PDF or EPS export dialogs or on Color tab of Print dialog if you need to output to PostScript. CMYK to RGB Converter takes input CMYK color data in the form specified in the input text area. Only one click, and application generates RGB color code from CMYK format. Please visit the HTML Color Codes article to find information about the most used color codes - HTML color names, HEX color codes, RGB, RGBA, HSL, and HSLA values. PjPAmZ.