Pantone on PS
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- T-B-O-A
I am making the artwork for the cover of a book and it will be a two colour print.
Is there something I need to set on my tiff file in PS to identify the pantone colours or it will be ok even if it is a CMYK file?I hope I'm making sense.
Thanks in advance
- Gorbie0
garyscale -> duotone -> specify spot colors -> save as EPS.
- Duane0
Exactly...CMYK does not equal Pantone colors. It will print four color if it's a CMYK document.
- T-B-O-A0
Thanks ever so much guys!!!
I can go to sleep now...
- T-B-O-A0
Just realised that if you make the file's mode duetone instead of only having the two colours you get a mix of thee two.
I wanted a vibrant red and black and ended up having my image in wanky poo brown.
How can I only have the two colours? Or is it something I should do in Quark?
- Gorbie0
yeah. you'll have to layer images and/or text inside either illustrator/freehand, indesign, quark, pagemake, etc.
these applications can run color separations when given to a printer, where photoshop cannot.
- ********0
dude- if it isnt a super pro job- color sync your monitor and save the file as a TIF or PDF- then what you see is what you get- give or take... although if you are really getting into print work it's good to learn the PRO way now.
- Gorbie0
come again?
- BonSeff0
yeah i saw that earlier.
it's all about the color sync.
prepress will sort it out right?!!
- Gorbie0
that's why the average life expectancy for a prepress tech is shorter than a coal miner!
- mijlee0
If your using Quark;
Convert image 2 a greyscale TIFF and import into your Quark page. Now you can colour it in Quark by either setting the backround or foreground as the colour.In Photoshop you can also get tricky with Channels, as Photoshop now supports Spot colour channels, will take a bit of fiddling to get the look your after though.
Hope this helped :)
- T-B-O-A0
The reason that i wanted to use Photoshop was that I wanted to have the effect you get when the top layer is on multiply so the black & white layer blends with the red backgroung and loses the white.
Is this making any sense?
I've been trying to make it work in freehand and quark but it seems to be quite tricky.
What kind of file does it the b&w image has to be so that quark will let me change the opacity or make the white transparent?Thanks
- Duane0
Sounds like using channels in a Photoshop document may be your best bet in order to get the look you describe.
- Gorbie0
no....
set the separated red object(s) to overprint.
what this does is basically the same thing "multiply" does in PS. Instead of the red knocking out the black behind it, the red ink will print right on top of the black and create the effect i believe you're trying to do.
look into "overprinting" with spot colors. thats what you want.
- Gorbie0
an example of spot color overprinting:
