By You’ve spent hours perfecting an image in Lightroom—the colors are vibrant, the tones balanced—only to receive prints that look muddy, flat, or completely wrong. The culprit? A fundamental misunderstanding of how colors translate from screen to paper. When you edit photos, you’re working with light-based RGB colors, but commercial printing uses either process colors (CMYK inks mixed to create your image) or spot colors (premixed inks for exact shades). This distinction directly impacts whether your sunset oranges stay brilliant or turn dull, whether your carefully crafted blues remain true or shift unexpectedly.
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