Photoshop Spot Colors

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Maynard_Johnson
Jan 23, 2004
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PS7 Windows

I understand how to create a new spot channel. What I want is the spot color to take on the aspects of the Greyscale photo below it like it does when applying a monotone. Everytime I make a selection and load it as a spot color channel it fills 100%. Changing the opacity does not maintain the GS equivalent below when it prints. Does it have something to do with combining the spot channel to the COLOR layer style option???

Thanks for your help.
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Mike Russell
Jan 23, 2004
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PS7 Windows

I understand how to create a new spot channel. What I want is the spot color to take on the aspects of the Greyscale photo below it like it does when applying a monotone. Everytime I make a selection and load it as a spot color channel it fills 100%. Changing the opacity does not maintain the GS equivalent below when it prints. Does it have something to do with combining the spot channel to the COLOR layer style option???

Thanks for your help.

Spot channels weren’t designed to work this way, since they are printed on a separate plate, but there are other ways to accomplish the same thing.

One way is to just fill a new layer with the Pantone equivalent of the spot color, and set the mode of the layer to Color.

If you really want to physically use the spot color, then you probably want a duotone set up to use either just your spot color, or your spot color plus black.

Look up Duotone in the manual, and check out the sample duotones that ship with PS7. If neither of these does the trick, and you don’t get an answer here, try posting to the comp.publish.prepress group.

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Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com
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LenHewitt
Jan 23, 2004
Maynard,

Copy the greyscale to the clipboard and then paste it into the spot colour channel
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Brian
Jan 23, 2004
If you CTRL-click on the grey channel (to load the channel as a selection) and then add your spot channel it should use your selection (i.e. the grey channel) as the basis for the new channel.

Can I possibly say the word "channel" any more times in a single sentence???!?!
8^)
MJ
Maynard_Johnson
Jan 25, 2004
Thanks Len and Brian for the assist.

Maynard

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