CMYK to RGB

On of the real beasts I’ve fought for a few years is getting ImageMagick to do a good CMYK to RGB conversion of files. In the past I’ve messed with the color profiles but always came out on the losing end of the deal. This week though I got all my image conversion to look good. My command ends up looking like

convert CMYK.tif -quiet -profile Generic_CMYK_Profile.icc -profile Generic_RGB_Profile.icc -strip RGB.png

The problem that I’ve always had in the past is that I had neglected to set a profile in the image to start with as my images were coming without a profile. Once I gave it the CMYK profile and told it to transform to the RGB profile all my colors start to come together better. I strip off the profiles in the end in order to reset myself back to a non-profiled image. No more neon greens, hot pinks or electric blues in those images.