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unable to convert from rgb to cmyk
sambana Offline
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Yesterday, 07:53 PM
"color profile is not for rgb color space"
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12 minutes ago (This post was last modified: 11 minutes ago by rich2005.)
(Yesterday, 07:53 PM)sambana Wrote: "color profile is not for rgb color space"

You are trying to use a CMYK icc profile.

Gimp 3.0 is 100% RGB editor, you can not edit your images in  CMYK mode. If you want to do that, then Load your RGB image into Krita, http://www.krita.org,  convert to a CMYK mode, edit then export your finished work in a sutable format, jpeg / tif sometimes psd.

What you can do in Gimp is assign a cmyk icc profile for soft proofing as:

   

Then when complete, export as a jpeg or tiff, enable Export as CMYK and Save colour profile as:

   
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