On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Guillermo Espertino wrote: > Even though I agree that most of the CMYK cases mentioned use CMYK > almost as spot colors, I can think of a very common usage scenario in > Graphic Design where you need to be able to edit CMYK directly: > > Corporate colors. > Most frequently Pantones. Brands have their corporate colors and ask > designers to use them, but they can not always afford extra spot passes > in offset press, so the colors have to be converted to the most > aproximate CMYK combination (the Pantone Bridge catalog is for that). > > So you have to adjust the color of a photograph of a sign, a truck and a > producto of your client to their corporate CMYK color. > > It's a photograph, you need CMYK, you can't use spot. > > This is a very common scenario, and it's a task for a image manipulation > program. Sadly for the cause of CMYK, that's not really a good example. That's a better example for the need for Pantone and other color matching system support. Which GIMP will eventually need, but I'm thinking that day will come a decade or two from now, hopefully when there's an open source rival for Pantone. (I actually plan to take that task on, myself in a few years, as part of some research) -- | Andrew A. Gill To ensure continued quality of service, | | this e-mail is being monitored by the NSA | | <superluser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <http://www.needsfoodbadly.com> | -- _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
