HELP! Changing CMYK Black of Background of Photo in Photoshop?

[OakBehringer]

While designing an album cover...

Album booklet to be printed in CMYK, obviously. I have an RGB photo, mostly black. After converting it to CMYK and using the channel mixer to return to the original brilliance, the black is CMYK 100-92-85-98. This is obviously too long of a black... way too much ink... using thin white fonts over it prints terrible, etc. How do I adjust the black of the image to something more favorable to printing, like 60-40-40-100?

Thanks!
Adam

 

[smalltrees]

how are you testing this?
if the densities are visually correct in RGB, they should print fine...
make all your corrections/adjustments in RGB... no need to re-adjust after the conversion...
depending on their process and equipment and printing media... "thin text" may have issues...

 

[Alastair1]

You didn't need worry because if you select the pure black color then it will print black and if you want to do black then you can correct it from color adjustment option which is located in image tab.

 

[Steve]

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