Spot Color Help

I have a simple thing I’m trying to do, but
it might turn out too difficult 🙂

I have this image I am wanting to spot color sep.
I want the "C" to print with Silver ink.
I want the "3" to print with Gold ink.
I want the "onstruction LLP" to print with Silver ink. (2 color job)

My dilemma is that the letters are filled with shade of the desired color and PS doesn’t seem to allow me to assign a spot color to a layer that has shades of that spot color.

http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/_/r_seyler/C3Construction.jpg
Sample

http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/_/r_seyler/C3Construction Ver 2.psd Each spot color object is on it’s own layer in the psd file.
And I know that Silver is going to be very weak to try to see on paper….. ugggh customers, what ya gonna do?!? 🙂

Any advise?

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Ric Seyler

IMHO:
You should *not* be using PhotoShop for this … a vector drawing program would be much better.

Try Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Canvas, etcetera … and save the *final* version as an EPS file with your spot colors defined.

"RicSeyler" wrote in message

I have a simple thing I’m trying to do, but
it might turn out too difficult 🙂

I have this image I am wanting to spot color sep.
I want the "C" to print with Silver ink.
I want the "3" to print with Gold ink.
I want the "onstruction LLP" to print with Silver ink. (2 color job)

My dilemma is that the letters are filled with shade of the desired color and PS doesn’t seem to allow me to assign a spot color to a layer that has shades of that spot color.

http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/_/r_seyler/C3Construction.jpg
Sample

http://bellsouthpwp.net/r/_/r_seyler/C3Construction Ver 2.psd Each spot color object is on it’s own layer in the psd file.
And I know that Silver is going to be very weak to try to see on paper….. ugggh customers, what ya gonna do?!? 🙂

Any advise?

—
Ric Seyler

PS apparently won’t allow spots on shaded areas.

RicSeyler wrote in news:jacQc.966$zJ4.415
@bignews1.bellsouth.net:

PS apparently won’t allow spots on shaded areas.

Convert the layers to individual graycale Tiffs. Place in Quark or Indesign. Colorize with the spots.

Hey Eric,
I did that and brought them into Corel and PageMaker
but the clipping path necessary for grayscales (who bounding box overlap) wasn’t good enough for text..

Thanks for the Idea though….

RicSeyler wrote in news:CScQc.1101$Tl.204
@bignews3.bellsouth.net:

Hey Eric,
I did that and brought them into Corel and PageMaker
but the clipping path necessary for grayscales (who bounding box overlap) wasn’t good enough for text..

Paste them inside a frame (RageMaker) instead. There is plenty of room.
Unless, of course, you’re going to have to run them over a background.

Thanks for the Idea though….

You bet. This may help as well:

http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/Tips/channel.html
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Got the guy to go process color…. yay!! 😉

RicSeyler wrote in news:UuuQc.2153$ow.2122
@bignews3.bellsouth.net:

Got the guy to go process color…. yay!! 😉

Well, hell, if you’re just going to cheat…

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