Comments on: Working with Spot Color Channels

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:54:15 +0000

This Tutorial is very helpful.. can you ad some words about how can we do over print for the spot colours…….?

Thanks
Paul

By: grafixgeek

grafixgeek — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:28:35 +0000

On the topic of spot colors is there any tool anywhere that would allow you to put 2 or more spot colors into a color slider (like the cmyk color slider) to generate a blended color from the spot colors. I only ask because I have a client that requires all their work for print to be in 2 spot colours (any 2, but only 2). The last design I did I used cyan and black and converted to Pantone spots after. I worked really well and allowed for greater degree of creativity with shading and effects than using 2 ‘flat’ colors. Now I’m wondering if I could take 2 spots like pantone orange and pantone cyan and blended them could I get out some others colors, maybe an army green?

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Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:25:27 +0000

[...] My best advice on any printing issues is to talk with your commerical printer or print service provider. They can tell you exactly what you need to do to output the job. If you are looking for a good online resource, check out Corey Barker’s excellent post on Planet Photoshop: http://www.planetphotoshop.com/working-with-spot-color-channels.html. [...]

By: sidney davenport

sidney davenport — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:11:38 +0000

Wow! This worked perfectly. I was pretty desperate and you came through for me.

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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:54:21 +0000

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By: Isobel Macdonald

Isobel Macdonald — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:39:04 +0000

What has happened to printing spot channels in CS4. We frequently create files with 7 spot channels and we have to be able to turn some of these off – the turned off channels would not print. CS4 is printing all spot channels whether they are turned on or off. Why is this happening. In CS and CS3 you could turn off a spot channel and it would not print. Is there some setting in CS4 to stop this happening?

By: lukasz

lukasz — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:16:21 +0000

I would like this tutorial a lot more if it wasn’t a creepy clown. hah. great tutorial none-the-less.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:47:04 +0000

Ernie,

Create the spot color channel, but keep your cmyk channels blank and save as a dcs 2 eps. spot channels disappear when saved as tiff or regular eps.

By: Ernie

Ernie — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:39:25 +0000

How can you make a color spot if no cmyk is desired? I’m trying to print pms 471 and black dueatone, however when I bring in image into indesign, it converts it to cmyk 471 not 471 spot..

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:16:17 +0000

Your summary of how to work with spot colors in the Channels palette is very easy to understand. I thank you for that. There are slim pickins on the web when it comes to researching advanced graphics techniques. I wasn’t even aware you could set type, in Photoshop, as a spot color channel. I do most of my layout work in Illustrator and only use Photoshop for image editing and color correction/alterations. Interesting read though. This helped a lot.