Re: Color Model

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 07:47:50PM +0100, Bernhard Herzog wrote:

> I think Skencil should be able to work with both RGB and CMYK.  

I agree and also think that transparency should be incorporated.

> Both color models have different gamuts and different uses.  If
> your Drawing is intended for the web you want RGB, if it's for
> professional printing, you want CMYK.  

Let me add the common knowledge to illustrate why CMYK is interesting
in general, that a printer might physically print
those colors seperately.

> proper CMYK support needs some form of color management,
> so adding CMYK isn't exactly trivial.

Maybe you can add some pointers about what "color management"
actually is.

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