Color Seperation Under Unix? 12
xPG2x asks: "I'm screen printing and I've tried a lot of (good) color separation programs . However, I haven't had any luck finding an open source equivalent. Are there any Slashdot readers who are into screen printing who would know if such a program exists? A good example for such program would be Screenprint Separator."
Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:3, Informative)
It's a bummer I know.
-dave
Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:4, Informative)
Besides, this has been covered before in an Ask
Ask Slashdot: GIMP and CMYK [slashdot.org]
Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:1)
Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:1)
Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:2)
But Apple will sue you if you paint your house transparent with aqua trim.
Re:Sounds like a job for the Gimp! (Score:1)
Pantone has nothing to do with CMYK - absolutely nothing.
What you need is a color seperating driver for your printer.
I would be interested in seeing what kind of halftones you get from amateur screen printing.
I started out in life as a screen printer and then moved on to DTPresentations and did one of the first desktop color seperation here in the west of Europe with software called PhotoMac. I then moved on to Photoshop which I have used since beta.
Now I use Painter for leisure and GIMP where I can in daily work.
perhaps ImageMagick (or not) (Score:2)
ImageMagick [imagemagick.org] can separate channels and handle the CMYK colorspace. Alas, the options for extracting a channel are R, G, and B. Depending on how much of a programmer you are, you may wish to look at the its channel-separating code and see if there is an easy hack that would work for you. Warning: I know nothing about screen printing so what I have said may be nonsene.
"separate" isn't spelled "seperate" (Score:1)