File talk:RGB CMYK 4.jpg
What on earth is this comparison supposed to show? RGB and CMYK are two colour spaces which describe the same colours in different ways. The image is being displayed on an RGB monitor, so both sides are RGB in this sense. I have no idea why the left side is marked "RGB" and the right "CMYK" -- the implication is that colours in CMYK are less saturated and dirtier-looking, which is not a sensible or meaningful conclusion. With no rationale, no explanation, and no referencing, I'm removing links to this image as being uninformative. rhebus (talk) 15:21, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
- The image demonstrates the difference between the RGB and CMYK color gamuts. The CMYK color gamut is much smaller than the RGB color gamut, thus the CMYK colors look muted. If you were to print the image on a CMYK device (an offset press or maybe even a ink jet printer) the two sides would likely look much more similar, since the combination of cyan, yellow, magenta and black cannot reproduce the range (gamut) of color that a computer monitor displays.
- This is a constant issue for those who work in print production. Clients produce bright and colorful images on their computers and are disappointed to see them look muted in print. (An exception is photo processing. In photo processing, like snapshots or 8x10 glossies, most of the RGB gamut is reproduced.)
