bother

[egypturnash]

Experimenting with adding some pixelly filters to my stuff in AI. Unfortunately I have found a major conflict: while you can do some nice subtle textures with the things, most of them only work when you're in RGB.

And I habitually do all my AI work in CMYK.

Oh well.

Comments

[kiala.livejournal.com]

One of these eons, I must bribe AI lessons out of you.

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

Is it a bad scene to use Photoshop to convert the AI image to CMYK later?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Is it a bad scene to use Photoshop

For me, it is!

I could just work in RGB and have all the little filters available, then hack it into a CMYK in the event of actually going to print, yeah... but it's a purity of essence thing, you know? Pick colors in CMYK, output to CMYK someday. Start in AI, finish in AI. I know a lot of people finish in PS, but PS just makes me itchy.

[lapdragon.livejournal.com]

PS has fleas. *nod*

[slinky-treecat.livejournal.com]

Even PS isn't much help if you prefer CMYK, which I also use in PS if I think a piece may go to print. Many of the filters in PS are only useable in RGB mode as well. *urf* Perhaps the people who wrote the filters didn't want to deal with coding for another channel along with having to deal with making sure the filter works within the colour range limits of CMYK.