Comments on: Modern Mechanix’s Cover from Painting to Magazine (Jan, 1935) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/05/modern-mechanixs-cover-from-painting-to-magazine/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: altwegg http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/05/modern-mechanixs-cover-from-painting-to-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-76292 altwegg Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:49:59 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/05/modern-mechanixs-cover-from-painting-to-magazine/#comment-76292 Actually, this is exactly how CMYK was done in those days (and up until very recently.) C = cyan (a shade of blue) M = magenta (a shade of red) Y = yellow K = black (which the article doesn't mention) Color separations until very recently were a black art and those that were good were highly paid and sought after by printers and color houses. Nowadays, anyone with the scratch to buy Photoshop can claim to do color separations, but it's still a skill to do them well. Actually, this is exactly how CMYK was done in those days (and up until very recently.)
C = cyan (a shade of blue)
M = magenta (a shade of red)
Y = yellow
K = black (which the article doesn’t mention)

Color separations until very recently were a black art and those that were good were highly paid and sought after by printers and color houses. Nowadays, anyone with the scratch to buy Photoshop can claim to do color separations, but it’s still a skill to do them well.

]]> By: galessa http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/05/modern-mechanixs-cover-from-painting-to-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-76210 galessa Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:36:34 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/03/05/modern-mechanixs-cover-from-painting-to-magazine/#comment-76210 amazing there was no CMYK by those days! amazing there was no CMYK by those days!

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