

And in fact, you probably should not convert them to CMYK (at least not in Photoshop).Īs we have traveled around the world giving presentations about InDesign, Photoshop, and publishing, we’ve been constantly amazed at the number of people who are still using the old, 20th-century “convert to CMYK” workflow. So, even though we’ve been saying this for 15 years, maybe you haven’t heard it… so we’re going to say it one more time, with emotion: But you know what? This is the 21st century now and it’s time to wake up, smell the coffee, and change your ways for the better.

And yes, we know that you’ve been doing this since 1989 with PageMaker 2. Yes, we know you probably learned to convert images to CMYK in Photoshop before placing them in InDesign.
