Overprint Indesign
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- stewart0
nice one Gnash. moar!
- monospaced0
Use multiply if you're not overprinting! This is getting ridiculous.
Overprinting is LITERALLY printing one color over another. For example, printing a spot light blue over black, or vice versa. Sometimes that color does well on top of black, which is NOTHING like multiply.
Multiply is a filter popularized in old-school photoshops, and then in Photoshop. It just adds the color values together on screen and creates a new color. It's something you use to get that desired effect, but it should never be confused with or compared to overprinting.
- hellobotto0
If you are wanting to create the effect you're demonstrating in your Multiply example, but with overprinting, then you have to accept this print production technique (like playing with dot gain) might not offer you a shortcut. You have to deliberately create artwork to generate your end result.
This goes for anything related to creative problem solving. In order to execute any concept, grand or small, you have to work within the limitations of the processes propelling the activity. Assuming Multiply will translate on press is foolish, consulting with a pressmen and knowing Multiply will translate on their presses is being a smart designer.
One last thought. Take a step back, and replace Multiply with Difference. Both of these effects live in the same family, they are blending effects. Should we expect to be able to replicate "Difference" with etched plates on a 4/C press?
- monospaced0
looks like trapping problems
- jonny_quest_lives0
+1 this thread...
brought a tear to my eye
it's good to know there are still print people hanging about on qbn.
- stewart0
@hellobotto above:
I noticed that too using %'s of swatches. The outcome can be totally illogical and unpredictable.
With effect > multiply the outcome is totally clear. I still wonder why this should be for screen only and useless for print.
- i_monk0
Just because it looks right on the screen doesn't mean it will print that way. Paper ≠ the web.