gimp cmyk

[Chymera]

where can i get the cmyk plugin for gimp in for my 64bit machine?

[inksmithy]

I'm not sure there is such a thing. Be worth having a good look around google for it though.

[Chymera]

splendid reply.... you know so much!!!!
by "no such thing" you mean no cmyk plugin or no cmyk plugin for 64bit

[jlenain]

Hello,

I am also looking for a cmyk plug-in for Gimp.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to exist yet for Ubuntu... but it does for instance for SUSE:

http://www.linuxcdmall.com/suse-9.3-i386-disk2.html (for instance)

I read some stuff on the net and saw that one has to create a cmyk profile by its own in order to convert a RGB picture in CMYK. Does anyobody knows how to do it ?

Thanks a lot

[Chymera]

this is just hell.... can it be so hard to make a proper plugin that will help the gimp have a chance to become at least remotely comparable to photoshop?

[johannes]

http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml
or
http://cue.yellowmagic.info/softwares/separate.html

I have only tried the first one. I don't think there are any ubuntu packages. With 64-bit you need to recompile it before installing, e.g.
wget http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/l...3_linux.tar.gz
tar zxvf separate-gimp2-0.3_linux.tar.gz
cd separate-0.3_linux/
rm separate separate.o tiff.o util.o
make
sudo install -D -m755 separate /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/
sudo install -D -m644 sRGB/*.icm /usr/share/color/icc/

Or a similar process.
Then add some ICC Profiles (e.g. adobe's) to /usr/share/color/icc/
from here:
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/...CCProfiles.zip

Oh, and you'll need pkgconfig, gcc, lcms, libtiff and of course gtk2 and gimp to compile.

[Chymera]

pretty straightforward ....

[AJB2K3]

Is it so hard to look in the preferances? 2.4 has in in the rc version in the repo's

[Chymera]

strangely enough it's one of the first places i looked.... you get a cmyk menu somewhere under pref which then asks you to select an icc profile for cmyk.... or smth like that... and that's when i started looking for one, and slowly got redirected to the "separate" plugin...

[ImpressMe]

If you need CMYK or LAB mode then GIMP is just the wrong program. My advice is to do what I did: get some professional software, and get the job done!