Controlling Spot Color transparency levels

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Monte_Darland
Mar 1, 2004
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I’m creating a logo that is being converted to a halftone and I want to spot color areas on the halftone to tint the areas within the logo. I’m not interested in a duotone or tritone in this case, but simply to add a spot color over some text that has shadows and values and also add blue to another part of the logo. I want to maintain white within the areas that need to stay white. I have created the halftone and each of the pantone spot color channels. I know I need to convert this to a multichannel to define each channel output to plate, but I need to make sure about the tint value of each of my spot channel colors. I would appreciate any feedback on this.

Thanks,

Monte Darland
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John_Slate
Mar 1, 2004
I know I need to convert this to a multichannel to define each channel output to plate,

You do not need to convert to multichannel mode.

You can have a grayscale mode or CMYK mode file with spot channels, you just need to save as DSC2.

but I need to make sure about the tint value of each of my spot channel colors.

That is what the info palette will tell you. When a particular spot channel is highlighted in the channels palette, the info palette will give you "black" values where ever you sample with the eyedropper. "Black" values because the spot channel is a grayscale, as are all channels

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