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Re: [lug] Re: GIMP: is CMYK imprtant for monochrome work (fwd)
At 6:05 AM -0700 7/20/00, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>At 08:16 PM 07/18/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>At 2:23 PM -0600 7/18/00, Wayde Allen wrote:
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>>>Were you just to take an RGB image and then use the simple formula to
>>>convert it to CMYK, your results on the printed page (off a printing press)
>>>would be unacceptable. Many folks have spent a lifetime on just doing
>>>"color science" to perfect what are now in the industry called "color
>>>profiles", where you are profiling the color gamuts of the source image,
>>>your monitor and the target device (ink on paper.)
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>>I've never had the nerve to ask this before - what does "gamut" mean?
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> Gamut means the range of colors a system can produce. It depends on
>things like the color characteristics of inks used for printing or the
>phosphors used for color television tubes.
In one sense this is similar to changing contrast curves for different printing
processes, then. Thanks to everyone who explained.
Greg