New Spot channel in PS
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- nylon
Does anyone know a good tutorial for this?
I seem to have a problem with the ones I've seen so far...
Ta
- DeSiard0
What are you having trouble with? Making a spot color channel is fairly basic.
- nylon0
I want the spot channel to print at 30% but it doesn't seem to look like 30% on screen - weird...
Ta
- horton0
isolate the channels and adjust levels (output) to approx 30%
- nylon0
Sorry but I don't understand what 'isolate the channels' means...
I did however adjust the the levels output to 190 (from 0-255)...Does that work?
Thanks
- horton0
think of your spots as grayscale art. the value of gray gets output and replaced with a colored ink at press. the color you see on screen is just for visualizing.
this is in regards to print production, not sure why else you'd use spot channels.
I personally find spot inks a lot easier to understand and manage in AI or ID, but that of course depends on your project and experience.