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Friday, 5. December 2008, 05:46:36

operafan2006

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How to convert an image to CMYK TIFF File

Hi,
some printing press requires that images be supplied in CMYK Tiff file. They also give a help file( conv_2_cmyk_v7.pdf )to do this in photoshop which I don't have. Is there any other program that can do this ? I tried photofiltre which converts to Tiff but in RGB color.
Here is an example for picture in emf format(Picture1.emf ) and I coverted to Tiff (Picture1.tif )in photofiltre.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Friday, 5. December 2008, 06:56:12

sgunhouse

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Hmm ... I see a passing mention of Corel Draw, but I'm sure that doesn't help. Don't see it in GIMP ... maybe try Picasa? Presuming that Irfanview doesn't already do it, of course ...

Friday, 5. December 2008, 10:03:04

Pesala

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Not quite free, but very cheap — PagePlus 9 will export an image as CYMK. Also a very useful DTP program (see my sig for a review).Picture1.zip

Saturday, 6. December 2008, 04:00:58

operafan2006

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thanks Volunteer and Reclining Buddha, for your input. Why it is so rare? Is it technically difficult to implement in a simple imaging software ?

Saturday, 6. December 2008, 19:29:19

FastStone Viewer (3.5) can do it.

In Save as dialogue, choose TIFF format, then click Options button, a sub-dialogue opens. There you can choose CMYK in the photometric dropdown menu. You can also choose compression, for which, according to the document you posted, LZW seems the best option (making file size about 1/8). I took a picture from your doc and convert it to CMYK TIFF (TIFF file).

Saturday, 6. December 2008, 23:36:02

operafan2006

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Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

FastStone Viewer (3.5) can do it.

In Save as dialogue, choose TIFF format, then click Options button, a sub-dialogue opens. There you can choose CMYK in the photometric dropdown menu. You can also choose compression, for which, according to the document you posted, LZW seems the best option (making file size about 1/8). I took a picture from your doc and convert it to CMYK TIFF (TIFF file).



Wow! thats great. I did not expect a simple viewer like faststone will do it so easily while big names like photofiltre, gimp, paintdotnet all can't! Thanks for the info.

Sunday, 7. December 2008, 05:12:20

Originally posted by operafan2006:

I did not expect a simple viewer like faststone will do it so easily

I haven't tried them, but got a feeling that Irfan View and/or Xn-View may be also capable of this operation. It is more of file management than editing a photograph, isn't it?

Thursday, 15. January 2009, 20:19:28

Butchi2

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YOUR PROBLEM FOR IMAGES OF *.TIFF IS APPLICABLE IN ACDSEE SOFTWARE LOW TECH AS WHAT YOUR USING LIKE COREL OR PHOTOSHOP BUT WHY DON'T YOU TRY THIS ( ACDSEE Software ) IT MIGHT HELP YOU A LOT....

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