[lug] Re: GIMP: is CMYK imprtant for monochrome work (fwd)

[Wayde Allen]

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:30:29 -0400
From: Sam Wang <stwang at mindspring.com>
To: alt-photo-process-l at skyway.usask.ca
Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l at skyway.usask.ca
Subject: Re: GIMP: is CMYK imprtant for monochrome work

At 10:37 AM +1000 7/18/00, Peter McDonald wrote:
>Just starting to play with GIMP (under Linux) and the author of one 
>of the manuals states that GIMP doesn't do CMYK (as does Photoshop), 
>only RGB.
>
>I am interested in enlarging some of my pyro negatives from 6x6 cm 
>negatives to 5x4 or 8x10 for printing with Ziatype.
>
>Is there a issue with GIMP not using CMYK for this purpose?  I 
>searched the archives, but couldn't satisfy my queries.
>
>Comments?
>
>Thanks
>
>Peter.

Peter,

You don't have to use CMYK even if you are going to color separate 
and print in tri-color gum. For Ziatype, absolutely not. So if you 
wanted to use GIMP because of the expense of Adobe Photoshop, you can 
buy Photoshop LE for $99 - it doesn't have CMYK either.

Of course GIMP being free is even better. Please let us know how you 
like using it, as well as how well it works in making enlarged 
negatives for Ziatype.

Sam Wang