duotone image help
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- jakeyj
how do i keep my spot colors on a duotone image?
i'm editing an image in pshop and i need to export it for use in indesign...when i create the duotone it gives me a combination of the two but i need the spot color to remain unchanged. get it?
its a duotone cause its a two color job...
thanks
- Rand0
photoshop duotone eps should import as 2 spot colors
- mayo0
the Rand has spoken
- tny0
spot channels
- tny0
(dcs format)
- jakeyj0
how do i work the spot channels?
- snuggles0
are you meaning that your image is now very muddy because the two spot colours are mixing too much?
- tny0
channels pallette; add new; etc
- jakeyj0
yeah snuggles exactly
and one of the colors is black so its friggin muddy as crap
- laurus0
when you select the doutone colors, you have a little graph where you can specify how they'll mix
- tny0
yep jakeyj i think you need those channels
- radar0
jakeyj when you goto Image> Mode> Duotone - the first box to the left with a line though it is the curves.
- tny0
or, as laurus is saying, you might need to change the ink percentages with the duotone
two different solutions
- jakeyj0
ok yeah i've been fanangling with those curves for like 20 minutes - but then i don't get my spot color?
i have a solid area on part of the image that needs to be a PMS color, and i can't get it with the curves. or the channels for that matter.
- snuggles0
ok, the lighter colour needs to be the first specified ink and the darker colour, your black, should be the second, when you go to the "graph" on the lighter colour try setting your "0" value to "100%" and your 100 value to "100%" see how that works, it still mixes but should present both spot colours more distinctly..
- jakeyj0
thanks for the help snuggles but I already tried that and no luck....
- laurus0
you can change your image to multichannel mode, the you can have more control over the specific channels.
later you can save it in dcs format.
- laurus0
i meant, make it multichannel after you've made it doutone. then you will get two separate channels, one for each pantone.
- tny0
what laurus said
- jakeyj0
ok so i must be a moron cause i'm not getting this....
i can't find a way to keep a large part of my image as a spot color. i always end up with a muddy combination of the two. how can i get a large chunk of the image one spot color?
thanks for the help everyone..
- snuggles0
jake, can you post a jpeg of the image so we can see what you want to accomplish?