Free/opensource software for simple photo editing and design?

[sam]

There’s apparently a third-party plugin called Separate+ that will export to CMYK from GIMP?

Does it handle all the weird CMYK stuff you’re supposed to do with colour alignment and effective use of the black channel?

edit: or maybe that doesn’t mater with raster, it’s been ages since I did any of this stuff…

[papernoise]

There’s apparently a third-party plugin called Separate+ that will export to CMYK from GIMP?

Yes that’s true, but seems like a bit of a hack to me.

In theory, if Scribus handles the conversion well, you could of course work with properly tagged RGB files (as long as you use a side gamut profile like AdobeRGB or better eciRGB v2). In my workflow I find that doing the conversion directly in the image editing program works better, because you have more control over it.

[simonvanderveldt]

AFAIK Krita does support CMYK. Do you have any experiences with that?