RGB & CMYK 3D Image Types

Most people are at a loss as to what the differences are between RGB and CYMK, let alone understand why there has to be a difference. It used to be an absolute pain to handle conversions between the two formats, with a struggle between us as 3D artists and graphic designers that were not up to speed on modern artwork and a little stubborn as to the need to learn.

RGB stands for Red Green Blue, the three colours that are mixed on a computer screen to display the desired image. All computer screens work in RGB and all 3D Renderings are made in RGB.

CMYK stands for Cyan Magenta Yellow Key, with the "Key" being black. These colours match those used in the traditional printing process. Graphic designers prepare a lot of their work in CMYK and deal with the differences in translation on a computer screen. There are often slight variations between the display of the two formats.

When our 3D Renderings first came out there was a lot of conflict as Graphic Designers were at a loss as to how to handle them. Problems with inaccurate representation of colours were happening and some designers just gave up on using our work directly and just printed it and re-scanned it in CMYK, often leading to a big degradation in quality.

Today modern printers and designers have no problem in dealing with the two formats, which was especially necessary when digital cameras became popular, which are also RGB format.

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