
Hence throws the above mentioned error message 'GIMP failed Error loading PSD file unsupported color mode CMYK'.

will be lost that reduces the image quality. Even if GIMP opens some PSD file with CMYK color, its layer masks, layer style, etc. Such PSD file will have just one layer of exact size, due to which GIMP doesn’t support this type of file. And making use of CMYK color mode for PSD file will serve the purpose. This is because printers generate colors by mixing Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black (CMYK) to give accurate coloring for the image. Before that glance at the reasons behind PSD file error unsupported color mode CMYK:ĬMYK color mode of PSD file is a crucial factor for images that are to be printed. So, for the given instance let us see how to fix this PSD file error. When this error occurs then the PSD file cannot be edited in GIMP. But when opening a PSD file with color mode other than RGB (specifically CMYK) in GIMP, the application produces an error “Error Loading PSD file: Unsupported Color Mode CMYK”. xcf, GIMP also supports Photoshop PSD file on it. And this application can be easily used on any platform by using plug-ins.

This program can be used as simple paint program, as an image format converter, high quality photo retouching tool and so on. Similar to Adobe Photoshop another wonderful graphic editing application called GIMP (GNU Image manipulation Program) is widely in use. RGB is the most common color mode that most of the graphics editing tools can handle with, in which colors of the image is described by Red, Green and Blue color combinations. Each color mode of PSD file serves vivid purposes and each image editing application support different color modes of PSD. This image file consists of numerous layers with different color modes called CMYK color, RGB color, Bitmap, Gray-scale, Lab color, Multichannel color, Duotone color and so on. PSD, acronym of Photoshop Document is an image file format created on Adobe Photoshop application.
