How to Set Up a CMYK Color Profile and Soft Proofing in GIMP
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- In this live tutorial (originally recorded for Patreon), I'll show you how to set up a CMYK color profile that allows you to import CMYK files (for us in print) as well as how to "soft proof" or preview CMYK colors in GIMP. This tutorial will go along with our How to Create a Business Card tutorial, which we will post on our RUclips channel later today.
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Note that you can download color profiles free from the ICC website (there's also a link to Adobe's free color profiles at the bottom of the page): www.color.org/registry/index.xalter
Tip for my euro people: swop is for Americans and I live in Poland which like most EU countries uses EU color profiles. So I needed color profile for typical uncoated paper and I found out after research that the best for that is FOGRA-29.
Thank you for making these videos. I'm starting to create miniature art printables for my Etsy shop and was so worried about resolution and the colors looking nice after printing. By far the clearest and best-explained tutorial on previewing CMYK in GIMP. Cheers!
Thank you. I have been trying to wrap my head around WHY you would want to mess with color profiles. It's still blurry, but this has been the best explanation so far.
Have you been able to download the ICC profiles? I cannot, it seems the link is dead?
Thank you so much! I had no idea you could do something like this and it has saved me from having to use a ton of paper and ink figuring out the right colours! lol much appreciated!
Have you been able to download the ICC profiles? I cannot, it seems the link is dead?
@@carldb7374 same here , seems its dead. :(
@@aurgho5277 I found some links if you need :)
do you have any other sources for this profile? I keep getting "this site can not be reached". I have no idea where to look for something like this. Still learning.
Thank you for the helpfull instruction. How to save it afterwards with the CMYK colors in PDF format (after having chanced it into CMYK from RGB)? I have tried to save it first in JPG format and then export it into PDF format. But already in the JPG format it says again that it is in RGB colors
Thanks homie!
Thanks a lot !!
Thank you!! super useful! one more subscriber 🙂
But an actual real CMYK mode, and ability to natively work in CMYK, open CMYK files, and exporting a CMYK file in whatever the format, that seems is not going to be done till version 3.2 or so (in the roadmap... is not even estimated in time.... ), am I right ? . I think for that and a reasonable pricing, the way to go is Affinity Photo (Windows/Mac only), Corel Draw or Xara Designer ( the two latter way more expensive)... Or... Krita, although is not a full image editor (is a digital paint tool) as Gimp is...
Is there a updated version to this, or has gimp not simplified this process? Not sure if the newer updated version might of made this simplified or not. Current version is 2.10
@K10 no, I actually hired someone from Fiverr to do it for me for like $10.
Your video rocks my friend !
Thanks a lot! This was very useful!!
So, this gives me a Preview only, But does not separate to CMYand K for making print screens. How do I SEPARATE?
great video, quick question, how about the export process? will it export as CMYK or RGB? the reason I ask is that I can view how it looks like on gimp, but when I export, the color is still darker than the CMYK, thanks Davies if any insight to this is great, I hit a dead end with this color stuff
thank you
Great, thanks! But one question, if I save it, will it be saved with the CMYK profile? Or is it just for visualization?
visualization only. Until Gimp can save files in cmyk color profiles that is
@@happystar1000 can Gimp now after 2 years actually save to CMYK? I always get an error message when I try to do so.
@@robertborck1963 I can`t save CMYK
Yes, Im late to the party, but I need to add: Regardless of all of this.... Gimp 2.10 will still NOT open a PSD file saved with a CMYK profile. Such files are often provided by print houses as templates (to show bleed area, safe zone etc). For these, you must convert the PSD template to RGBA (or convert the whole file to PNG - either online or with Imagemagik). Installing the ICC profiles in Gimp won't help you. as I have just now found out.
Hi, did can you solve this problem?
@@beyza64 I solved it at the time using one of the solutions I mentioned in my comment above. I dont normally use PSD files so this was (thankfully) a one-off problem for me. Im unaware if the problem has been resolved in later versions of Gimp, but I would hope so :)
@@AussieRail Thank you. I suppose i can just recording png and using it other programs. I hope gimp will add cmyk and solve all of this problems. :)
This sorted my issue with different print than I had on my screen and in original documents I wanted to duplicate. Thanks a lot! The colours now look almost identical (they were very different previously). Just the new converted one has lost a bit of definition. Is it because it is in pdf? What do I need to do to maintain the definition in the CMYK converted image?
I think that Gimp have now made a default option for CMYK as one of a default setting. I went to GIMP preferences to follow your process and I see in "Preferred Profiles" there are now 3 default headings that are set out as follows >
RGB profile - (sRGB IEC61966-2.1)
Greyscale profile - (None)
CYMK profile - (Generic CMYK Profile)
@BlackWorm ok Thank you
the ICC profile download is not available, getting an error page when I tried to download. Is anyone else having this problem?
I keep getting an "error page not found" message. Did you figure it out?
@@aubreywasNo, but I just googled convert to cmyk online and found a website that does it. good luck
Today, 23 Jul 2019, I just downloaded the Adobe file. When the file is extracted you'll see a CMYK file. You choose which one to use.
@@totalrespawn676 Wow, thanks for posting this. I did not know this even existed. What a difference in the images, thanks again.
Thanks again, other question: Do you have a video about the four "Rendering Intents"?
The ICC color profiles are no longer available from Adobe. Any other way to get these? Does Adobe own the rights to CMYK or something and no other company can produce these color profiles? Also this whole process doesn't seem to work if you use GIMP on a Linux OS, since Adobe products don't actually work on Linux at all. Case in point the need for some other company to provide CMYK color profiles. I am not a professional graphic designer (obviously) so I do not understand why only one company can make CMYK color profiles. Aren't they just colors? Every tutorial on the internet starts with "download the Adobe ICC color profiles" -- this is really annoying and makes no sense.
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Love it! Thanks for watching.
It doesnt seem to work for me, I added the CMYK color profile but when I import a photo it keeps converting it to RGB, I changed it in the preferences but no luck .
Hi, I'm trying to follow your instructions but I keep getting a popup saying it's not secure and I can't get to the actual download. I accepted the agreement and that's as far as I can go so any help would be appreciated.
Hi Donna, I'm here like you were a month ago trying to download the CMYK color profiles for GIMP, and I am not having any luck finding the page. Did you find it???? I've been at this for two days so far and I am ready to pull my hair out.
Any guidance would be so very appreciated!
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I was going to try this but I could't download the files from Adobe's website. The download link opened a "404 Not found" page...
Same for me
@@301KYE Adobe is shit as usual and its just gone.
Today, 23 Jul 2019, I just downloaded the Adobe file. When the file is extracted you'll see a CMYK file. You choose which one to use.
Hi! Thank you for your video! Two questions: Why by lowering the contrast on my image will reduce the number of colors that CYMK cannot reproduce? i.e.: The Out of Gamut pixels are reduced as you reduce the contrast. 2) If CYMK apparently reduces the contrast, can increasing the contrast counteracts changing from RGB to CYMK? Thank you
great, but I have 2 Questions. 1. in my popup for "Configure Color Display Filter" there is no item for Color Management. How can I configure that Filter-List2. When I see the softproof-view, it is quite different for some icc. Is there any automatic correction or what are the means to correct it by hand.
I tried this. I have the newest version of gimp 2.10.18 but did not see the when I looked for the profile it came up with the name of the one you saw for 2.8 but not the one you had named for 2.10. So I tried it and when I went to the the preferred profiles I believe I got an error saying that it wasn't an RGB profile what am I doing wrong?
Thank you very much
hi there, this is a very useful tutorial, but i would like more information, if possible. i design my own book covers in GIMP and they turn out great, however if i'm design covers in rgb, and it gets printed on createspace (a print on demand company) in cmyk, doesn't that mean that i should design my covers in cmyk to begin with? is that even possible? or do i need to constantly keep soft proofing it as you showed in this tutorial? it seems very tedious if that's the way to go. thanks
You can just keep the soft proof on while you work if you insist on working in GIMP. Otherwise, there are other programs that allow you to edit in CMYK mode - such as Photoshop (though that costs a pretty penny).
hi, thank you so much! that's a relief to know.
excellent thanks.
thank you, this helps so much. i wonder if you could steer me to some ducation on how to edit photos of black cats to print well in the cmyk color profile? they always look too inky and i don't know how to fix it
why are the profiles in "soft proofing" different from "CMYK profiles". Won't that cause problems?
any solution for cmyk in ubuntu?
Hello , which of them should I use in order to print a T-shirt ?
Look up or ask if your/the company's printers use CMYK or RGB
is the one that u work on is gimp 2.10?
I unable to colours in Adobe file
HI, how can i know what profile of cmyk i have to choose??
hi thanks, I'm using Linux latest version of GIMP 2.10.18 do you know how to get the ICC profiles for Linux ? also I have my epson 2100 printer profiled which ive been using on mac in Photoshop how do the CMYK profile and my printer profile differ and where should i select the printer profile? thanks
The icc or icm files are the same for Linux and Windows. You can use "Windows" icc (or icm) files. Now getting the files from the device manufacturer is the challenge. All the devices I have don't have profiles on the manufacture's website. Lesson learned: Do'n throw away the disk that comes with the device.
If you are stuck, in addition to the Adobe site, Scribus comes with a few profiles, as does Texlive.
@@roberts8134 thanks
unless its just me .. I thinking Gimp made a deal with adobe somewhere . cmyk isnt recognized with 2.10.10 of gimp.
I'm trying to install it too... not seeing where I can select the CYMK profile after extracting it.
my GIMP ver is 2.8.10, in my IMAGE menu there is "NO" Separation selection, how or what version you recommend? thank you very much
I recommend that you always update to the latest version of GIMP. The current latest version is GIMP 2.10.8 - definitely try updating to that!
Thank you!
Thanks!
go ahead
on mac, we would download the same windows ICC profiles. there are not windows or mac profiles, they will work regardless.
also just found out we CAN'T download mac profiles, even through abode says mac profices when you click accept it then says the page cannot be found - so no mac profiles exist
OK scratch that, can't download the windows ones either says this site cannot be reached so now makes this and other tuts that use these obsolete. thanks adobe for sod all!!!
Very useful Davies.Have been looking for an easy way to do this. Thanks a zillion.
Is it possible for you to show a printed sample to compare how close they are to an RGB.
Thank you. I could potentially put something like that up on Patreon or Twitter/Facebook. I'll get back to you on that!
Coated vs uncoated??? Difference?
It's just the type of media you are printing to - coated means there is some sort of coating that is applied to the paper you are printing to (and thus effects how the ink is absorbed). Uncoated means there is no coating, and the ink absorbs into the paper easier. Hope that helps!
Davies Media Design thanks dude, you're a total snack ❤
Actually "Coated, Uncoated" hasn't to do with how the ink is absorbed to the paper. This is part of a 4 color print process, it's basically a clear coating of ink on top of the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black. It's not a GLOSS so much but it does give a bit of protection. Regardless that's on the 4 Color Printer end, which you chose for any design program won't make a difference. (It's regarding Professional Printers who do mass-production printing of Magazines, Brochures, etc No not like a Kinko's -those are more of a copier machine.)
5:59 Not to that “Color Profiles” folder? How confusing...
Hello , which of them should I use in order to print a T-shirt ?
I was trying to listen but got lost in your eyes 😅😅
Why the hell is this a 13-minute video
Thank you!!