Black drawing needs to be PMS 349 — how to?

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Susan_Khammash
Oct 2, 2006
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I have a drawing that will go on a business card. The drawing was provided in black ink on a white background. I need it to be PMS 349 to match the rest of the business card which is being set up in InDesign CS.
Is there a simple way in Photoshop CS to change everything that is now black to PMS 349? Thanks for any help.

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Art Campbell
Oct 2, 2006
The Color Replacement tool?
In CS2, it’s off Image > Adjustments. You may need to changethe file mode too, it it’s set to B&W or greyscale.

Art
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Heather Bell
Oct 2, 2006
Naw, don’t bother. Save as a greyscale TIF (or bitmap if it is solid line) place in InDesign, click on it with direct (white) selection tool, and set the fill to PMS 349.
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Chris_Cox
Oct 2, 2006
Art – there is the "Replace Color" adjustment and a "Color Replacement Tool". Two different things, two different places.

That being said, there are probably 30 different ways of accomplishing what the original poster asked in Photoshop.

But a lot of it depends on how it’s going to be printed. If it’s going to a printing shop to make business cards, they probably want black on white artwork and they’ll use the correct ink (or they’ll want separate B&W plates for the colors).
If it’s going to a laser printer or inkjet, then you’ll have to change the color beforehand (because what you see is what you’ll get).
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Susan_Khammash
Oct 2, 2006
Heather, everything including the white area, turned green. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.

Art, can you give me detailed instructions? I tried your way and can’t bring about a change. Thanks.
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Bob Levine
Oct 2, 2006
Set the card up in ID as all black and tell the printer to use Pantone 349.

Note: The PMS designation was dropped years ago by Pantone. I’ll leave it up to your imagination to figure out why.

Bob
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Heather Bell
Oct 3, 2006
If you click on it with the Black Selection tool it colors the box (frame), if you click on with the WHITE selection tool you’ll notice the frame edge turns yellowish, at this point Black should show up in the fill box on the swatches palette and if you change to 349 it will change only the black information to green information. IF going to offset printer you CAN send all black as some people have suggested unless this is two spots, black and green, and the art needs to be on the green plate vs the black. Depending on the size of the printer, (ie number of departments and red tape) sending the art in the color it should print instead of designating this on an order form, can cut down on the risk of a "mistakes" in production. It would be the printers fault, but, it’s still your time that is wasted as well, which will not be compensated.

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