CMYK - How to draw on black channel?

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Re: CMYK - How to draw on black channel?

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ImageMagick draws and annotates in the RGB colorspace. You cannot draw on the black channel directly. You must first convert the image to the RGB colorspace, draw/annotate the image, and finally convert back to the CMYK colorspace.
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