Dumb question: anyone know how to scan in a piece of art without having to convert to RGB? I have a great scanner but when I convert to CMYK for print proofs there is massive color loss. Help!

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Not really. Both CCD and CIS, the sensors used in flatbed scanners, receive and/ or emit RGB light. Sometimes your scanner has profiles you can convert before processing the image, but in my experience they are pretty lackluster. I have always just went in with an RGB scan, convert to a new CYMK image in PS, then select each RGB color converting it to the appropriate CYMK or spot color needed. Becomes a guessing game on overlays or full color pieces though.

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Yeah that’s the sense I’m getting too is it’s a guessing game, I just couldn’t believe I couldn’t find a more straightforward answer online. I am far from the first person to need a physical piece of art digitized into a template for printing!

Wait so you’re saying that you’re scanning in a piece of physical art. You’re then attempting to reprint it. Your issue is that the scanned piece contains colors that can’t be printed CMYK? Isn’t the issue there the way you’re attempting to print it, and not the scanning process?

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Yes basically - it’s a physical piece of art that needs to be reproduced as part of a design. I am being required by most printers to send them cmyk files which is why I need to convert from rgb (the only way it will scan in) but when I do, I lose color.

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