rgb - Rob Cubbon | Design and Marketing

For print designers who want to learn web design

6 years ago I was typesetting company reports, trying not to look at the clock to see how soon I could go home. Now I work from home and every time I look at the clock I marvel at how quickly time passes! I have managed to cross-over from being a print designer and artworker [...]

September 20, 2010 13 Comments Filed Under: Design, Internet
Tagged With: design, fonts, Internet, print design, rgb, web design, web fonts

Changing an image to match your design’s colours

You have a great photo. You have a great design. One problem: the photo doesn’t “go” with the design. The solution is to change the image in Photoshop to more accurately match the colour scheme of the design or, more commonly, to match the client’s or brand’s colours. In the above example the final image [...]

April 19, 2008 17 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: blend mode, brand, client, cmyk values, color, colour scheme, corporate, corporate colour, hue saturation, info palette, layer s, many different ways, matching, orange, pen tool, photo, Photoshop, rgb, s, segments, slider, umbrella

Using Photoshop channels to create cool montages

A client of mine was illustrating an article about the World Economic Forum whose annual meeting is usually held in scenic Davos in Switzerland. My client was keen to stress the importance of interconnectivity within both the forum and the wider business community and gave me an image of connected wires of light to marry [...]

March 12, 2008 22 Comments Filed Under: Photoshop
Tagged With: annual meeting, brush tool, business community, channels, client, cmd, curves, Davos, forum, Illustrator, images, interconnectivity, layer mask, mask, masks, montage, montages, outlines, palette, Photoshop, rgb, rgb channels, s, sky, snowy village, switzerland, technique, threshold, white background, world economic forum

Why RGB colours look bad when converted to CMYK

RGB can be seen in the dark. CMYK can’t. RGB shines out at you. CMYK inks absorb some colours and reflect others. Somebody wrote to me the other day whose website had lovely blue type on a black background. Fine. Unfortunately, the results when changed into CMYK and printed were dull, muddy and terrible. How [...]

April 20, 2007 Leave a Comment Filed Under: Artwork, Internet
Tagged With: cmyk, print, rgb, screen