Help transitioning to digital please! Best tablets to use?
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@demotlj Yes. ProCreate, as I mentioned, is an exceptionally good and powerful digital painting tool, and perfectly good for anything that remains in the digital world. The issues concern exclusively projects that are intended for print and need to be transferred to a pre-press team. For that, you’d still need Photoshop, though it can be a part of the process only: it does not mean that the images have to be done in Photoshop from start to finish.
I’d also say it’s not an issue if you’re doing digital prints, for example for an Etsy shop. It becomes limiting only if you need to create CYMK files for a publisher. -
@sigross No, this has nothing to do with color calibration. You also cannot install ICC profiles on the iPad. ProCreate launched CYMK profiles on the new update, but it turns out they’re just “simulations” - they don’t compare 1:1 with the “proper” CYMK profiles used by Photoshop and by printing presses.
Simply put: don’t work in CYMK on ProCreate: it’s pointless. If you need to deliver CYMK profiles you need still to do the conversion on a computer in Photoshop (or equivalent).
Working in RGB is fine - and also transfers perfectly well to Photoshop. -
@carolinedrawing I still work extensively in ProCreate -whenever I know I will be doing part of a project while not in my studio. You can transfer to Photoshop at the very end (with RGB files) without issues. This project was just unfortunate because I set up the files in CYMK on ProCreate, believing that would work out.
I have a workaround to the current issue and, while time-consuming, it’s going to be ok in the end. -
@smceccarelli Thanks. That's very helpful.
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@smceccarelli Ok, I think it's possible there's is something I'm doing with the file resolution that has me disappointed in the final image, so it would be good for me to troubleshoot instead of changing my process entirely yet again. Can't thank you enough for sharing this, it's really good to know the limits of tools when I can't quite reach them myself yet.
Also, I'm sure you're helping everyone out when you give the people at ProCreate all this info, so thanks for that too. -
@smceccarelli yes you can install ICC profiles on the ipad. It does AdobeRGB, sRGB and ProPhotoRGB.
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@sigross That’s cool...but what about the different CYMK profiles printers use?
The ProCreate’s team response to avoid the issue was to “print directly from ProCreate”...I’ll try telling that the pre-press team and the printer that they simply have to change their whole process to use my files
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@smceccarelli good point
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AFter reading this, I googled it. I found this printing business with a how-to. I'm exploring the cost of sending printing out compared to buying my own high end printer. https://web.printingcenterusa.com/blog/how-to-convert-rgb-to-cmyk
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@smceccarelli
This response makes me think they don't WANT to turn it into a professional tool... -
@carolinedrawing I’m not an expert by all means, but I read an article or forum entry a while ago that said the issues regarding printing profiles are native to the iPad operating system. So the question may be more, whether Apple would want the iPad to become like a laptop or not.
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I'm fairly new around here, but for what it's worth... After much research, reading reviews, and taking a deep look down the black hole that is my portemonnaie, I went ahead and got myself a Huion Kamvas Pro 20 (2019). The rest of my setup is PC, so an iPad wasn't really something I looked into.
Until now I've used a Wacom Intuos Pro, which has been my trusty companion for some years, and I would not have minded jumping in at the deep end and getting a Cintiq... But then there's that aforementioned issue with that gaping nothingness staring at me from within my portemonnaie. The Huion was less then half the price of a comparably sized Cintiq!
So far my experience with the Huion has been very positive. It works flawlessly in tandem with Photoshop., setup was quick and easy, driver install took only a few minutes and worked without a hitch, and after setting up the shortcut keys to my liking, I was off to the races.
Hope this helps.
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@smceccarelli Can I ask you please what solution you found as a workaround? I forgot I was supposed to start the file in rgb in procreate and convert later in photoshop to cmyk. And just imported the .psd cmyk file from my computer on procreate. It was only when my fiance asked about how colors exports on my computer that I checked. Now I have 60% of an illustration done in procreate with horrible colors when seen on my computer. It still exports the illustration as rgb, even though the original .psd file is cmyk. I would like to be able to use my work if possible, instead of starting all over again. Thank you for your help
