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- cab2k5
I am doing a full color brochure ,
and business cards, and letterhead, but for the enevelopes it is only one color,
can one color jobs have gradients?for example, if I grayscaled my full color job, and then add a layer effect with the blue color i want, would this be one color?
any help would be great
thanks.
- swollenelbow0
hmm good question...i'd like to know...
i should be able to answer it for you...you first questions makes more sense, and you can have gradients in a one color, just make sure everything gradients to white...they'll just sep out your one color. have you talked to your printer abou this? they would know a lot better, some do, some don't...
that "full color" in your second questions throws me off, like "can full color job be on color?"
- XC010
think of a one colour job in these terms.
it will pass throught the printing press once and use only one ink.
the ink can be any colour.
that means a greyscale image is fine.
it can only appear on one seperated plate.the blue you are trying to introduce wont work, that will be a 2nd colour and create a 2nd plate and will require 2 passes through the press.
hope that helps.
- cab2k50
thanks dude, just curious
if i took my cmyk images,
then grayscaled then,
then put a spot color, color
layer over the image, to give
a blue shade to the greyscaledis this one color?
thinking about it, and i dont think it is.but curious.
- atomica0
Definitely talk to your printer, typically one color jobs can have gradients, but its all based on the screening of it, it can be good or it can turn out horrible based on your printers capabilties. As for the other Q, adding a blue hue to a grey gradient, that'd typically not be one color unless you made it a duo tone, with your one color and white, yeah that sounds right. Otherwise adding the blue ontop of the grey would make it a process color....
- cab2k50
ya ex, thanks man,
lets say instead of greyscaled
it was blue scale, diffrerent
values of one blue color?
thats one color right?
- atomica0
thats 2 colors.
- atomica0
yeah 1 color if a shade of one ink
- BonSeff0
if its one color, it doesnt have to be black. it can be any color
- XC010
make sure it appears only on one plate.
possibly use a pantone blue ink if you want blue in there.
- BonSeff0
play with the monotone feature under
image - duotone
but make it monotone so you can play with the curves
- swollenelbow0
yeah if you mess with the "mono" tone stuff you'll be able to do it i think...i remember doing something like this...
- cab2k50
thanks bonseff thats perfect.
- BonSeff0
thumbs up
good luck