Sourcing Images

We were taught this week on how to correctly source images for our designs, in order to make sure they are industry standard and appear the best quality.

We learnt how images taken from the internet will nearly always be in the mode of RGB (Red/Green/Blue). This is because this is the format that computers put images into to share on other computers. This, however, is not the colour mode that is needed for professional printed images. The colour mode needed for this is CMYK (Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Key).

There are different ways to ensure that you get images of this colour mode, you can either:

1. Search for 'Large' images on the internet as these will have more pixels in them.
2. You can convert them to CMYK in InDesign

With all images you need to ensure they are above 300dpi to ensure good quality print (screen are 72dpi) and ensure they are CMYK not RGB and bingo, you've got a good quality print image.