duotones

JB
Posted By
Janis_B
Dec 4, 2003
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Hi y’all,

A designer brought in a great looking christmas card with a very unique front illustration that I am having difficulty printing. (I’m a designer working for the printer, just to clarify.)

I’m using Photoshop 6 and Pagemaker 7 in Windows.

The problem I’m having is that the designer created a duotone using black and a PMS color. Then, she imported that duotone into an RGB document and added layers of just the spot PMS color on top of it. Now, never minding the fact that I can’t use the RGB version anyway, how can I retain the duotone background, single spot color forground AND have it seperate into two spot colors, Black and the PMS? She gave the image to me as a layered PSD, so I can go in and manipulate any parts I need to.

Also, I then need to set this two color image up in Pagemaker to create the card. I know that an EPS will work, but I’ve never had success getting a Photoshop EPS to seperate, or even look good for that matter. When I choose EPS and hit save, an options window comes up. How should these options read? If there is more to making an EPS work outside of Photoshop, other than these options, what else do I need to do?

Thank you for any help!
Janis B

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Don_McCahill
Dec 5, 2003
Well, you always could send the file back to the artist and point out it is not correctly built. I assume to get the effect he/she wanted, the file should have been left in a duotone mode, and the full PMS color could be added to the color plate and knocked out of the black plate.

Perhaps there is another way to do this, and some of the prepress experts will see it and suggest it, but I just offered this suggestion to you in hopes it help (and to get the thread back up to the top of the page).

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