On Monday 06 November 2006 09:32 pm, Chris Mohler wrote:
On 11/6/06, graffoo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look for the Decompose plugin - ColorsComponentsDecompose...
CMYK - you'll get an image with 4 black and white layers. Then
you can save each layer as separate files you can use for silk
screen. To make shadings with dots, use FilterDistortsNewsprint
and play with the settings ;)
Is it my imagaination, or are the CMYK layers inverted?
Yes, for printing purposes they are inverted after the decompose
plug-in.
The amount of ink is marked in each pixel from 0 to 255 - so, if an
image has some pixels with zero yellow (for example, white pixels)
- the output of the decompose plug-in has this as zero yellow ink-
meaning black. if it where full yellow, it would be full intensity -
showing White.
In pratice, you just have to invert that.
You can't however expect color accuracy with that plug-in. That is -
you will have variations on the color you see on the screen and the
color you get if you use the decompose plug-in, invert each resulting
image, print that as a screen, and recompose the colors.
you may also want to increase the pixel quantity in your image, before
using the newsprint plug-in. Your target printing process have an
ideal lpi number - arrange your work so that you have these lpi in
the final image for each color.
Another way of doing this work you might find usefull is using the
GIMP channels instead of layers for compositing your final image.
Just create a channel for each ink color you intend to use, and later
apply the newspirint plug-in ont these channels.
As for separating, let's say, dark blue in a separate channel from a
normal RGB image, I can think of the following procedure, which would
have to be written as a plug-in:
duplicate image, flatten-image, duplicate layer, color to alpha(remove
desired channel color, on the underlying layer), set upper layer to
'difference' combine mode, copy visible, paste as new layer,
dessaturate, copy, create new channel, paste on new channel.
Perceive taht whatever you do, the dessaturate step will modify the
finalc composition of your image you should spend some trial and
error either in that step, or modifying the curve of the final
channel.
Either way, I'd like to hear how you are doing when using GIMP this
way.
Regards,
js
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I'm using GIMP version 2.2.13
Chris
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