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Here is my problem. I have a CMYK image that really only contains 2 colors, cyan and black – the blacks are however, CMYK blacks – and I need to make it a 2-color image (cyan and black) that is still in CMYK. Here is what I have tried, with no luck:
1. Downloaded Powertone to create a very nice looking C-K duotone – problem is that this particular printer cannot print duotone (?!?!) – only CMYK, so in my case I would need M and Y filled with white.
2. Simply deleted the M and the Y channels – this leaves me with C in places that I don’t want it – I have areas that I want to be Black only.
3. Placed the duotone into InDesign, and used Distiller to create a PDF – this only gives me a duotone PDF, which as I stated in #1, is for some reason unacceptable.
4. Opened PDF described in #3 in Photoshop again, converted it back to CMYK – this gives me the CMYK blacks again…
5. Recreating the entire PSD by draggin and dropping the C into a CMYK document, then everything else into a Grayscale document, and then dragging the gray images into the CMYK document – again, this gives me CMYK blacks.
6. Converting the whole thing to grayscale, then Duotone. First of all, this makes my areas of pure cyan muddy and ugly along with making my black and white areas contain shades of blue, and STILL gives me a duotone, which in this case is useless.
I am at my wit’s end with this, I know there has to be a way!
1. Downloaded Powertone to create a very nice looking C-K duotone – problem is that this particular printer cannot print duotone (?!?!) – only CMYK, so in my case I would need M and Y filled with white.
2. Simply deleted the M and the Y channels – this leaves me with C in places that I don’t want it – I have areas that I want to be Black only.
3. Placed the duotone into InDesign, and used Distiller to create a PDF – this only gives me a duotone PDF, which as I stated in #1, is for some reason unacceptable.
4. Opened PDF described in #3 in Photoshop again, converted it back to CMYK – this gives me the CMYK blacks again…
5. Recreating the entire PSD by draggin and dropping the C into a CMYK document, then everything else into a Grayscale document, and then dragging the gray images into the CMYK document – again, this gives me CMYK blacks.
6. Converting the whole thing to grayscale, then Duotone. First of all, this makes my areas of pure cyan muddy and ugly along with making my black and white areas contain shades of blue, and STILL gives me a duotone, which in this case is useless.
I am at my wit’s end with this, I know there has to be a way!
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