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I am trying very hard to convert a CMYK PSD into a thumbnail or any kind of flat image for use on the web... I am not getting anywhere.

If I use the [0] after the file, I keep getting a segmentation fault. If I try a colorspace, I get a seg fault ... when I convert it plain with -flatten I get something that only marginally represents the intended picture.

If it helps you, this PSD file is 136 MB.

It's huge.

Anyways ... just testing the waters to see if anyone knows what's going on.

For example:

convert MTSD\ Poster\ Final.psd -flatten -colorspace RGB exit.png

exit.png ... the colors are all wrong, the overlays render as noise, it's just terrible.

Post a URL to one or two of your images. We need to download and reproduce the problem before we can offer any help.

Sure, this is the file: http://24.227.52.162/MTSD.psd

I urge patience... this is a temporary server and we're working with a limited bandwidth.

My home computer actually has better throughput, but Verizon has just updated my FiOS and reset the router which I have to reconfigure ...

Thanks for all your help!

The download takes about 7 or 8 minutes, top speed...

What version of ImageMagick are you using? We're using ImageMagick 6.5.3-10 and it converts for us without complaint:

• convert 'MTSD.psd[0]' MTSD.png

I am using the latest version available for my system... openSUSE 11.1 ... 6.4.3 ...

I see that 6.5.3 is available.

I will attempt to download and install the Fedora Binary of that, now.

That will not work.

I am now going to build the program manually.

Okay.

I built the new ImageMagick, installed it, and everything worked (after download a ton of devel packages) ...

But ... the color is a little off.

seems to me the original PSD was a little bit more pale... it's a CMYK image... any chance of getting these colors spot on? Any general advice for when that happens?

If you want the colors spot on you need to use two color profiles, a CMYK color profile and a sRGB color profile. See the -profile option.

Well, my current build of ImageMagick says it can't find any file names for those ICC profiles. I'm trying to look in the forums about how to actually configure this, without success...

I figured it out... I downloaded the color profiles from Adobe.