Printing seems easy, and it should be. But printing quality images at home to save money over the drugstore prints is very hard. The biggest problems I see people have is that after they are finished trying to print photographs out on their color inkjet printers, the finished product doesn’t always come out the way you expect it to. CMYK vs RGB You just took an awesome picture with your digital camera the camera captured all of the information in front of the lens and stored it as a file of RGB data. Meaning that it recorded the image / light it saw as percentages of red green and blue. Your printer will be printing these same pictures as CMYK (percentages of Cyan Magenta, yellow and Black). The primary colors of light are RGB and the primary colors of Pigment are CMYK, this fundamental difference between work you see and work you print throws a lot of people off. The RGB spectrum and the CMYK spectrum can represent most colors very well but there are certain areas where they don’t match up. Warning Areas! Certain colors you need to be aware of that have issues printing are deep blues, […]