photoshopping scanned photos for print *newbie question*

[nkautz]

sorry if this is a dumb question:

i'm working on publishing a book of my photography. i've had enough design disasters in the past to know about undesired color-shifts and incorrect blacks when converting rgb to cmyk. so my dumb question is this: if i convert an rgb photo to cmyk for commercial printing, will the darks/blacks look the same? it isn't possible to choose between rgb or cmyk color profile when scanning is it?

and if i have to readjust (contrast, levels, etc) after conversion to cmyk, how do i ensure that the darkest black in my photos prints as true cmyk black (0,0,0,100)??

thank you in advance for your replies.

[mfox]

You can try change it to CMYK then Levels and just do the Black channel And use that to make it pure K but it will darken the photo