RGB to CMYK file without losing the colour?

[Jacqueline1818]

Getting some more business cards printed and have decided to do the design myself - have done a basic one using some old photos to get me started and have to to convert it and seen that the colours have faded.

I know this is a common problem but is their a way round it? I'm sure their must be a way!!! Even if it means starting again with the images from scratch!

Help!

[banky]

One way which might help, in Photoshop you can change from RGB to LAB colour and then to CMYK, that can sometimes retain some of the colour, can't rememebr where I heard that, but I have had ok results.

Either that or readjust for CMYK? Sorry, not very helpful.

[PaulDCocker]

Just do a slight S-curve adjustment (opposite in CMYK) in photoshop once you've converted them all, it'll bring back some of the lost vibrance.