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I am working on a book idea which will be a number of quite old B&W photos that I am colorizing. The original photos are B&W TIFF files about 20 megs per image and the end result will be a professionally printed coffee table book. I am using Photoshop CS2 running on a PC with Windows XP. When I change modes from greyscale to colorize the pictures would I be better off using RGB or CMYK mode? I know I can save RGB files to CMYK after I am finished colorizing the images with the possibility of slight color shift or would I be better off to stay CMYK all the way through because professional printing uses CMYK? These are colorized images to look like real color but certainly nowhere as detailed as an original color photo. What complicates this, I think, is that computer monitors are RGB. Also, CMYK files are somewhat larger. I suppose this is a question for printer people moreso than Photoshop people, however I’m hoping someone who is a bit of both can guide me on this. Also, I must mention that while I am quite fluid at Photoshop, I am most definitely NOT a computer geek so I’m hoping for a simple response. Thanks in advance for any info you can supply.
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