On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 21:02 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: > >> Yes, processing shall as long as possible be done in RGB, but at some >> point you need to convert to the CMYK color space and a high-end photo >> app should support editing also in this color space. > > Why? Because you say so? All high-end photo editing applications are > pushing for an RGB only work-flow these days. There is no need to do any > editing in CMYK. If you really want to insist that being able to edit > CMYK is needed and that developer resources should be spent on it, then > you should at least give a compelling reason.
There was a somewhat heated discussion of this thread at linuxgraphics.ru forum and here are several examples from people who deal with prepress work on daily basis: 1. Client brings an image for poster in CMYK which needs color correction. Urgent work, not time to ask him to redo it. Double color space conversion is out of question. So he had to use Photoshop from VMWare. 2. You have a newspaper where first page should have a two-color photo: black (C=0%M=0%Y=0%K<=100%) and blue (C<=100%M=0%Y=0%K=0%). separate+ however separates black to 4 channels. 3. Some print houses set limit to overall sum of colors, for example 180%. So if you take Cyan 100% + Magenta 100% (already 200%) + a little of K and Y this will result in unnatural colors in a newspaper. 4. Live density control for each CMYK channel is a must (Scribus/SVN has that in preview dialog). To me it's somewhat strange that GIMP's product vision doesn't mention prepress needs explicitly. Alexandre _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
