CYMK in GIMP?

[Giant Speck]

Hello,

I'm trying to make a poster for a contest, but the entry rules state that the color format of the artwork must be CYMK.

I can't figure out how to do that on GIMP. Is there even a way to do it?

Thanks
Jesse

[hessiess]

gimp cannot do cymk

[Neon Lights]

gimp cannot do cymk

*yet.

it is planned, but at the current time, it's not functional. ): Sorry.

[AJB2K3]

Try this - http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.html

[noteviljoe]

I have been messing around with this and found that you can get the gimp plug in by adding gimp-plugin-registry and ICC-profiles using synaptic

[chips24]

i thought the new version of gimp could support CMY. what do i know...

[jedimasterk]

The Gimp developers for some lame brain reason, don't plan on putting CMYK support in Gimp. It's again'st their philosophy. They want to try and get the same results in other ways. Hence why Gimp will never be used for professional printing. Krita and digiKam does support CMYK. Kind of like ogg format being the prefered format for open source, but the required format being mp3. And someone telling you that mp3 support will never be included, because ogg is just as good.

[Neon Lights]

The Gimp developers for some lame brain reason, don't plan on putting CMYK support in Gimp. It's again'st their philosophy. They want to try and get the same results in other ways. Hence why Gimp will never be used for professional printing. Krita and digiKam does support CMYK. Kind of like ogg format being the prefered format for open source, but the required format being mp3. And someone telling you that mp3 support will never be included, because ogg is just as good.

Where on earth did you hear that?

[jedimasterk]

Where on earth did you hear that?

At Libre Graphics 2009. The Gimp developer talked about the UI, than talked about CMYK. He said that it was not about CMYK, but plates. Getting Gimp to work with high end printers. Also has a nice slide with CMYK and a big line throught it. youtube Libre Gpaphics 2009. Check out the link below.

http://www.mmiworks.net/eng/publications/blog.html

[azangru]

At Libre Graphics 2009. The Gimp developer talked about the UI, than talked about CMYK.

Yeah, and here is the recording of his talk and slides (the first 20 minutes or so of his talk are about CMYK)

http://river-valley.tv/media/confere...Peter_Sikking/

Frankly, I am confused. One minute he talks about CMYK support, next thing you know he says it's not CMYK support, then he says we'll get the option of exporting CMYK files, then he crosses CMYK out. I understand his idea of doing all the major editing in the RGB mode and then just doing some touch-up before exporting the file to some printer-friendly version, but what's all this fuss about "plates"? And will the exported file be in CMYK as the printer requires? Does anybody understand this? Can anybody explain?