How to Convert Ubuntu to CMYK

When printing your images or documents, you may find it useful to print in CMYK instead of RGB. There are two main types of color profiles for images — RGB (red, green, blue) and CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black). RGB is the main color profile used by computer monitors as RGB are additive, emitted colors. CMYK colors are filters and subtractive, which is how printed images work. Therefore, to get the best possible computer representation of your printout, you can convert to CMYK. Convert to CMYK, in Ubuntu, using the imagemagick tool.

Instructions

    • 1

      Click the terminal icon on your Ubuntu desktop.

    • 2

      Use the "CD" command to change the directory to your image folder.

    • 3

      Type "imagemagick" and press "Enter" to open the Imagemagick prompt.

    • 4

      Type "convert image1.jpg -profile USCoat.icm image2.jpg" (without quotes). Replace "image1" with the file name of your initial image. Replace "image2" with the file name of your chosen converted file.

    • 5

      Press "Enter" to run the conversion.

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