Here is a fun showing of how I change the RGB color profile of my children's book to the CMYK printable color profile
I am working on the page about bees and getting the yellow/gold to look write is a bit of an effort. Even after completing this video, I still had to do some color correcting and return for another round of adjusting. But that is how it goes and if you want your book to look perfect for your reader you will do many more until you are happy with how it looks. Each page of a colorful illustration needs to be scrutinized when going from digital to print. I will add that art applications have gotten much better than way back in 2006 when I first started writing and illustrating children's picture books, I used traditional watercolor and pastels on art paper and transferring that to digital form was impossible for me at that time, which is why those books are not in print...
After I am happy with the illustrations and have converted each page into a CMYK Jpeg file I import the pages into an online program called Canva just for the ease of the program which I am a paying member. I do not know of a free program, though Canva has a free option with limitations... I am not here to promote anything just sharing what works for me and hopefully inspire you along the way.
The program I use is called Krita and it is free open source, of course you can give a donation to the developers if you like. The program competes well with Adobe Photoshop
HAPPY CREATING!
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