Photoshop CS CMYK question

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Trying to have the black be RICH BLACK in a Photoshop CS image using CMYK, and can't seem to figure out where to do that. Image is set to CMYK but I need to set it up as C:50% / M:40% / Y:40% / K:100% and am not sure where to do this. Thing is, I've done it before in an earlier version of PS, but now they've either made it more complicated, or senility is kicking in....

Any help is much appreciated.
 
Two things. #1, the default black in photoshop (if you hit the "D" key) is Photoshops version of rich black. The numbers are slightly off from yours, but the same general idea. #2, if you want to manually input the numbers just click on the foreground color swatch in your tools pallet and then manually type in the numbers into the CMY and K boxes in the color picker.

If you don't see the adobe color picker, and it looks more like the generic OSX color chooser, then go into your menus: Preferences/Genreal and change "color Picker" from Apple to Adobe
 
Ah! thanks zoo,
that does look familiar now. Problem with the color picker is that I can choose a "new" black, but how'd I change a black that's already in an imported picture?
I see that it's not far off though (60/50/50/100 or so), so maybe I'll just leave it at that.

Again, thanks much!
 
Not an expert (and checking on v7) but.. Maybe with picture open, click on Image/Mode and make sure it is set to CMYK. Then click Image/Adjustments/Selective Color. Use drop box to select color you want to adjust and use the slider to adjust or type in numbers.
 
Great! Yes, that (Image/Adjustments/Selective Color) appears to work indeed with some fiddling.

Many, many thanks zoostory, and Cryogenic Filmworks!
 
you can also use the eyedropper and Shift+click on an area in your image, this will leave a little sample point there and if you open the info pallete you will see the CMYK (you may have to click the little eyedropper with arrow icon near the values for that sample point in the pallete) values of that point even if you move the mouse around. You can do this in multiple places and you will see all the values, up to 4, I think, in the info pallete.

The cool thing is, once you do selective color (which by the way I recommend doing non destructively with an adjustment layer) and you start fiddling with it, you will see your original values in the info pallete followed by a "/" and then the new values.

So you can literaly see, numerically, which directions to go and what to change in order to get to the desired value.

Here's an example of the info pallete with 4 points placed on an image and a selective color layer that altered the colors:

1159045544.gif


you can see the numbers 1 through 4
 
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