duotones
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- DavidFelt
Hey kids, working on a 2 colour poster here and i want to have an ornate picture frame (you know the sort, kinda gold leaf). my two colours are uncoated metallic gold and uncoated black.
Im having probs with setting up a duotone of my frame images with these colours and making it work as a sort of gold plus shadow effect with my two chosen inks,
anyone good with duotones???
- Tiina_G0
Show us the image in rgb and we'll sort it out for ya
- DavidFelt0
my hosts are down so i cant upload, how about i email a low res for you, see if it works??
- stewart0
pass me one too okay
- Hym0
to get full control over the 2 inks in photoshop you should work in Multichannel mode not dutone, then add the two spot colors as channels, delete the rest
- Tiina_G0
Hym is spot on, but fire the image away to me and we'll take a look at you!
- Hym0
i just tested this because im relying on theory here
amd i'm wrong
You have to add the 2 spot colors you want printed in channels while in CMYK mode, do not delete the CMYK channels or it will change into MultiChannel, neither Indesign nor Illustrator seem to support this colorspace currently, strange, i think i have to bug some people now
- DavidFelt0
hey thanks dudes, hym, i can change it to multichannel but then what??? im clueless, i should stick to illustrator
- DavidFelt0
ive sent u both emails, its a pain in the butt, i know what i want to do easy enough but i dont know how to do it!!!! argh!!!! ;)
- Hym0
make the two spotcolors by adding them to channels, change their color with the Color Libraries and make sure you pick the correct pantone
then you can put everything you want in gold, in that channel, everything you want black in the other.
- stewart0
here's the file David is talking about:
- DavidFelt0
colour libraries????
how do i select bits i want in gold, just how i would normally, like with select>colour range, and how do i fill them?
God im dense when it comes to pshop!!!!!!!
- Hym0
yeh seriously, if you don't even know where to find pantone color libraries in photoshop it's time you start reading the manual
- DavidFelt0
sorry, i misread you, ive done it now, course i know where the libraries are! sorry anout that, anyway, i got the effect im looking for using the duotone method but i have to save it as eps to get it in illy and this fucks up my transparent background!!!! argh
- Hym0
like i said Multichannel isnt supported by the photoshop import filter so you have to keep it in cmyk while adding the two spot channels
Then you can import it into Illustrator and the 2 spot colors will be added to your swatches, when exporting the pdf you have to switch of the CMYK plates but the printer probably can do that
- tny0
stewart:
The image “http://www.kulsdom.com/newstoda... cannot be displayed, because it contains errors.
- stewart0
tny you're right.
David passed me a CMYK jpg.
fixed now.
- Hym0
if you have such a big problem with photoshop, just put the raster plates separate in Illustrator and apply the spot color to it, like this
http://arrower.org/NT/rasterduo.…
and now i stop surfing and have to do some more work
- DavidFelt0
when you say raster plates, do you mean two different layers of b/w image, one with the things i want dark, one with gold????
- laurus0
you don't have to have cmyk channels.
build a multichannel doc and then save it in DCS 2.0 format.
indesign, illustrator and freehand will all read it.
good luck.
- laurus0
sent you an e-mail with a sample file.