Can Lightroom preview or soft-proof photos in CMYK?
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I want to check how parts of my photo will look in a CMYK color space, similar to viewing values or previewing output for print. In Lightroom I can only see RGB information in the Info panel. Is there any way to preview or soft-proof CMYK in Lightroom, or do I need to use another program or plugin?
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Photography Stack Exchange contributor
9y ago
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As far as I know LR do not support CMYK colourspace. So (again) IMHO this is job for PS (as far as I know GIMP do not have good CMYK support)
Please check this thread from adobe forums
Lr does not convert to CMYK. In fact it doesn't even display CMYK profiles.
You can convert to CMYK in Photoshop.
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Lightroom does not natively work in CMYK, and its Info panel shows RGB-based data rather than CMYK values. In older Lightroom versions, CMYK soft proofing was available for some profiles, but users report that in Lightroom 2015.5/6.6 and newer this CMYK soft-proof option was removed.
So in current Lightroom versions, you generally cannot directly preview or inspect CMYK with native tools. Lightroom does support soft proofing for output profiles in general, but for CMYK-specific work the usual solution is to move the image to Photoshop, where CMYK conversion and proofing are supported.
If your goal is print preparation in a CMYK workflow, Photoshop is the appropriate tool rather than Lightroom.
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