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Jul 24, 2009. Pantone to RGB is a free Pantone color code conversion tool, as its name implies, it can convert Pantone color code to RGB color, YUK color, CMYK color and HEX color. This software is easy to use.
I'm putting my first iPhoto Album together. Info given from Apple about what colour format to use for your photos, says to use RGB. While this is corrcet for digital monitors and screens. Mass printing uses CMYK. Any images supplied to a printers in RGB will colour shift when printed in CMYK. No matter what a printer tells you, these colour shifts can be very noticable. I'm an Advertsing Art Director and I've seen the shift that happens.
I will be checking/colour correting all photos submitted to the iPhoto Album with Adobe Photoshop. And many will very probably undergo some corrections. Be it through levels, curves, hue/saturation, etc. Nothing to anything near an excessive level, but enough to make obvious improvements.
So I will then be faced with the choice of whether to save the images out in RGB or CMYK.
Can someone with some technique knowledge, from the iPhoto team, tell me/reasure me why RGB has been specified? And if CMYK wouldn't actually be a preferable colour format to supply in, considering you'll be printing them in CMYK.
Many Thanks, Jim.
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Download CMYK for GIMP and follow step by step installation method to use this plugin. This plugin is one of the most useful plugin for GIMP portable. CMYK is the primary colour code that is used for creating attractive images on your PC. ‘Cyan Magenta Yellow Black‘ concept states the combination of the darker category of colours other than red, green and blue.
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CMYK states that darker the colours combinations mean sharp the image. Thus this is the mixture of these four colours which gets more mysterious and brighter, and then we keep on blending them more intensity. But, to give more intense colour strength, it is vital to add those colours in an equal ratio.
Wondering why equal amounts?
Adding equal amount has a reason that there is black colour among those subtractive colours which vary in the impurities of their inks. So, in CMYK, ‘K’ means black.
Download CMYK for your GIMP
Now, the best thing about CMYK is it is supportable with GIMP. First, download Adobe ICC Profiles. So do wonders to the images using this colour code CMYK and have CMYK in your GIMP. Just with a few steps.
Adobe Cmyk Color Profile Downloads
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But, for smooth using of CMYK profiles in GIMP, install the separate.exe. File in your computer and then use it.
While using, CMYK you will get RGB files in your GIMP.
GIMP has RGB images set up so, to have CMYK format you need to convert your RGB into CMYK. Separate the RGB file from the menu column that appears on the right side of the screen. Now, if you adobe in your PC then, the resultant image will get automatically saved but if not, then you have to keep it manually.
The resultant image will be named on the basis on the colours as “C”, “M”, “Y”, and “K”. If you want to have the image to have the respective layers for the colours, then choose the ‘separate’ option. This will enable you to have a white background in the first layer, and along with that, the other layers will have CMYK colours.
Conclusion
Color Profile Cmyk
The colour choice is significant in giving effects to the image and matching it to the real-time image. If you want to have the photos with more beautiful effects in GIMP, then, add CMYK to your GIMP.
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