So I’ve been playing a game called Tunic, which has a beautifully rendered, classic, CMYK offset printed manual, and I wanted to give my fanart the same look, but I’ve tried using various methods to replicate it in Krita and they all fall flat. Despite how popular this printing style is, I can’t even find any online filters not associated with Krita that do the trick. Has anyone successfully replicated the effect?
EDIT:
Image > Convert image color space > CMYK
Filter > Artistic > Halftone
Mode > Independent channels
Play with settings until you see the desired effect.
Just in case anyone else is looking for this like I was for hours on end…
I can only give you a rough layman’s guide to color based on the information gathered in the forum.
Usually in the non-commercial sector, which is what well over 90% of the forum users here are, you only work in RGB/A. And the conversion to CMYK is nowadays almost always done by the printer, if it is still used at all. Because it is a technology that has long since been rendered superfluous and outdated by the reality that more than these four colors are used in professional printing today, and is now only used in the prvate ink color printer. And even to your printer you send the images in RGB and get great printouts, because the printer driver automatically converts it for you, because hardly any private user even knows what color profiles are.
What you can do is ask the printer to give you their color profile (if they give it out) and work with the profile in Krita’s soft proofing mode. This means that you continue to paint in RGB/A and check again and again via soft proofing whether the colors look good in the color profile given to you. You could also set Krita so that Krita’s color picker only uses colors that exist in the color profile you have been given, this is possible and ensures fewer necessary corrections.
Furthermore, you should definitely read through these manual chapters:
And perhaps this one:
By the way, Krita’s manual in general is an excellent source of information. Additionally, you’ll often get additional background information. It’s really worth to read along the chapters you find interesting and follow the links to more information.
I keep the master version with all the layers in RGB, but after saving the PNG version, I make it CMYK to add the halftone effect and properly emulate the printing style of old magazines/game manuals, which were printed lithographically in CMYK.
I’m not converting everything I do into CMYK from the get-go, but to get the proper effect I’m looking for, you gotta make a version of the image CMYK.
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