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Converting CMYK to RGB (and Vice Versa) in Illustrator CS2

I do most of my graphics work in Photoshop or Fireworks, but every so often a client sends me an Illustrator that uses CMYK color. Every time this happens, I realize that I’ve forgotten how to convert these things to RGB color for the web.

Here’s the simple 3-step process for converting CMYK files to RGB in Illustrator. I’m posting this as a reminder to myself, but hopefully it’ll help some other folks as well.

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How Effective is Your Website?

Don’t Just Wonder, Know

Zenscope Studio’s website audit service was created to give businesses and organizations the in-depth insight and information to guide a successful Web strategy, without the expense of a full-scale redesign. If your organization has an in-house Web team—or if your site is a “do it yourself” effort—the information from an audit report can give you an important edge.

Covering both the areas where a website excels and the ways it can be improved, a completed audit report will offer detailed analysis of your site’s performance. The areas evaluated include basic security, search engine optimization, ease of use, content quality, accessibility for the disabled, and more.

Read on for more details about the benefits of a website audit.

Featured Project

Good Design Kills Spam, Improves Readability

Literary zine Little Elegy (case study) was a redesign with a twist—the zine’s editor wanted the site to look the same when the project was finished.

Any good designer knows that quality design is about more than making things pretty, it’s about effective problem-solving. In Little Elegy’s case, the problems that needed solving revolved around site maintenance and a an ongoing spam epidemic. There was spam in the editor’s inbox, spam in entries to the online guestbook, and even spam in the results from the site’s own search engine.

Although the website’s appearance only received minor tweaks to improve readability, the changes to the technological underpinnings of Little Elegy’s Web presence were extensive. To find out how Zenscope Studio made maintenance less bothersome, reading easier, and spam a thing of the past, read this case study.

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Testimonials

“Adam combines a flair for design with impeccable attention to detail. He didn’t rest until littleelegy.com was the best website it could possibly be.”

— Colleen Marlow, Editor of Little Elegy (read about this project…)

“Adam’s designs for my book covers instantly make them stand out above the mundane on the shelves.”

— Bill DeArmond, author (read about these projects…)