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Photoshop 5.5
Spot Color Channels
by Joyce Evans
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With Photoshop's new Spot Color channel
you won't have to bring your images into Illustrator
to color and back to your page layout to position
just so. Now you can do all of it right in Photoshop.
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To begin, select the parts of your image or logo
you'd like to add a spot color to. Use whichever selection
method works best for you.
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Press the D key to make your selection white, or
click the default foreground and background color
button. Then press the X key to make the foreground
white. Then click Alt+Delete (Option+Delete) to fill
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If your channel palette isn't open the go to Windows|Show
Channels. |
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With your selection still active click on the down
arrow in the channels palette and select New Spot
Channel
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Now name it if you'd like to, you can also change
the color here. A note about the solidity of the color,
it is for your monitor only, not a percentage for
print.
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Click on the color box to choose your color. Click
the Custom button to get this dialog. Choose Pantone
Coated (or whichever one you want). It would make it
a bit easier if you could type the color number in but
you can't. To scroll through you can use the numbers
on the keyboard.
Don't trust your monitor color, always choose your
Pantone colors from a color chart.
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You can see here the new Spot Color Channel has been
added.
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Click the D key to load the foreground as black and
the background as white. Hit the delete key. Now you
see the full value of the red because there is no black
behind it. |
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Now it is time to save. If you are using the file in
QuarkXPress, PageMaker or InDesign you'll need to save
as a DCS 2.0 format. Unless your printer tells you otherwise
don't select the Include Halftone Screen or the Include
Transfer Function check boxes.
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Your image can now be placed in your layout
program just like any other EPS image. Be sure to check to
see if your new spot color name shows up in your color palette,
also be sure it is listed only once. |
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