RGB to CMYK and back algorithm

I am trying to implement a solution for calculating the conversion between RGB and CMYK and vice versa. Here is what I have so far:

  public static int[] rgbToCmyk(int red, int green, int blue)
    {
        int black = Math.min(Math.min(255 - red, 255 - green), 255 - blue);

        if (black!=255) {
            int cyan    = (255-red-black)/(255-black);
            int magenta = (255-green-black)/(255-black);
            int yellow  = (255-blue-black)/(255-black);
            return new int[] {cyan,magenta,yellow,black};
        } else {
            int cyan = 255 - red;
            int magenta = 255 - green;
            int yellow = 255 - blue;
            return new int[] {cyan,magenta,yellow,black};
        }
    }

    public static int[] cmykToRgb(int cyan, int magenta, int yellow, int black)
    {
        if (black!=255) {
            int R = ((255-cyan) * (255-black)) / 255; 
            int G = ((255-magenta) * (255-black)) / 255; 
            int B = ((255-yellow) * (255-black)) / 255;
            return new int[] {R,G,B};
        } else {
            int R = 255 - cyan;
            int G = 255 - magenta;
            int B = 255 - yellow;
            return new int[] {R,G,B};
        }
    }

java rgb cmyk

Edit Report

A better way to do it:

    try {
        // The "from" CMYK colorspace
        ColorSpace cmykColorspace = new ICC_ColorSpace(ICC_Profile.getInstance("icc/CoatedFOGRA27.icc"));
        // The "to" RGB colorspace
        ColorSpace rgbColorspace = new ICC_ColorSpace(ICC_Profile.getInstance("icc/AdobeRGB1998.icc"));

        // Bring in to CIEXYZ colorspace (refer to Java documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/color/ColorSpace.html)
        float[] ciexyz = cmykColorspace.toCIEXYZ(cmyk);
        float[] thisColorspace = rgbColorspace.fromCIEXYZ(ciexyz);
        float[] rgb = thisColorspace;
        Color c = new Color(rgb[0], rgb[1], rgb[2]);

        // Format RGB as Hex and return
        return String.format("#%06x", c.getRGB() & 0xFFFFFF);
    } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); }

answered 2012-08-25T01:29:02.007

RGB to CMYK and back algorithm

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