CMYK & RGB in Perfect Sync with GraFx Studio
GraFx Studio now has desktop-class color capabilities baked in. You can work with RGB or CMYK colors in GraFx Studio, creating swatches and/or assigning colors to your Stylekits. While you do your creative work, both color spaces are accurately displayed as on-screen color (using ICC color management).
This is a major release for anyone working with printed content. The key takeaways?
When it is time to export to your Intent (Print or Digital), CHILI GraFx will render your artwork correctly for that destination. While Digital will be converted fully to RGB, Print will output a PDF that contains colors that keep their working color space: RGB remains RGB, and CMYK remains CMYK.
Moreover, there is no conversion towards a device-specific output intent of CMYK values in the exported PDF. This maintains a wide gamut for CMYK values created in GraFx Studio and applies no color conversion to PDF objects that were placed into the artwork – thus maintaining any color-managed properties of embedded artwork. By outputting PDFs in this way, your printer can choose the best conversion for their device as they go to print.
Updated in this release:
- Create colors in GraFx Studio using Hex, RGB, or CMYK.
- Create Stylekit Swatches to store values using Hex, RGB, or CMYK.
- PDF assets placed in GraFx Studio artwork now maintain their native color information and are not modified during creation or on export.
- Output PDFs containing accurate CMYK values ready for device-specific conversion by your printer.
- Accurate on-screen rendering of CMYK colors is fully color-managed using ICC profiles (International Color Consortium).
The result is what-you-see-is-what-you-get content creation for digital and print.