More info regarding CMYK

**Albacore** · 18 January 2013, 10:00 AM

To continue Handrawn's advice the JPG is RGB and not CMYK so that solution is not available to you. Look at your export file menu and see if it has the option to export as PDF as I think you can and use that as your method. Also Xara's help file is well written and that is a good source of information on CMYK. In the search area once you have loaded the Help file by pressing F1 type in CMYK and look at the results. Once you have saved the PDF open the file up in Adobe Reader and have a look at your output. The colours may look slightly washed out so you may have to go back into Xara and correct some of your designs. If you have a Laser printer you could use that to see what your PDF is like when printed in CMYK. If you want any more help please come back with an actual problem as the whole CMYK is a very large topic. Good luck!

**gwpriester** · 18 January 2013, 12:50 PM

Zakiyya - Xara Photo and Graphic Designer can export a PDF file, but the options are limited.

If you are going to be working with a lot of CMYK materials for advertising, you will be better off upgrading to Xara Designer Pro X which offers a wider range of PDF/X types and options.

Xara can export a CMYK TIFF, which is better quality than JPEG, but I have never been real confident in this format.

**M.U.D.** · 18 January 2013, 03:18 PM

Originally Posted by gwpriester

Xara can export a CMYK TIFF, which is better quality than JPEG, but I have never been real confident in this format.

Hi Gary,

By the above quote, do you mean you are not confident with Xara's CMYK TIFF exports or not confident with the TIFF format in general? Please elaborate.

Regards,
M.U.D.

**gwpriester** · 18 January 2013, 05:21 PM

Sorry. Not confident in Xara's CMYK TIFF export.

For my published stereograms, I export my images as 24-bit PNG then convert to CMYK in Photoshop.

**Albacore** · 19 January 2013, 09:21 AM

Your exporting, when you use .tiff, from a screen or page with RGB which has a huge number of colours down to a file type in CMYK with a restricted number of colours. This causes information to be left and is called "out of gamut colours" which is why people use PhotoShop for this job. Hope you can understand what I just said there for it took me a few weeks to get my head round the problem.