Photoshop Misbehaving – 5/1

try image/mode/duotone and pick your colors.

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I edit a newsletter quarterly in Publisher. We’ve told the person to use 2 colors (black and magenta) but she keeps reverting back. She uses colored pictures which I have to turn into grayscale in Photoshop. Her clipart is in color, so I have to turn it grayscale, then CMYK to put the magenta in. This time I made sure my ONLY color was 100% magenta.

My boss went to make a .pdf of it for press. All hell broke loose. He had to change the commercial printing to CMYK. Then all my magenta copy came out in purple. My clipart came in 4 colors. My black text was not right either.

I went to Photoshop to check on my clipart and lo and behold, each clip had SOME part of CYK in it.

How can I prevent this nightmare from happening again? What am I doing wrong?

Thanx,
Chris

cliff, please turn off your newsreader autoquote or delete the autoquote when responding here.. feel free to quote relevant parts of the posts you respond to.

I second what Dave said.

We’re all about efficient use of space on these forums, and all that quoting isn’t necessary to follow the conversation.

Cliff,

I really don’t understand your directions. When I apply a color to "duotone" the whole thing turns that color. I need to only colorize SOME parts of the clipart, and I need that to be in 100% magenta and 100% black.

Thanx,
Chris

Did you pick Duotone from the menu (where it says monotone, duotone is beneath)?

Or use multi channel mode with only a black and a agenta channel.

But it sounds like the proper settings were not used when creating the PDFs.

You have to make sure to leave the colours unchanged. (It’s an option in ID, don’t know about Publisher

May 27: sorry for the long delay. Yes, I did use duotone. That only turns the whole clip to magenta. If so, should I convert back to CMYK and color the black parts I want?

Thanx.

Chris

PS doesnt destaurate properly. It just makes it a full colour grey. If you mask/select the image/layer go to Image>Adjustments>Gradient map. Select a Black/White gradient but click on the gradient to edit. Choose the marker for the "black", put CMY to 0 and put K (black) to 100%. I found this makes the black a bit washed out but this can be helped my moving the placement of the "black" marker on the gradient.
If done right you should be able to pickup a percentage of just black from the newly greyscaled image.
For other colour seperations I just apply a colour overlay (layer blending options) using 100% Cyan Magenta or Yellow which the printer can pick up the separation for. Just tell them what that colour will represent (eg. Make the Cyan a PANTONE 292)This will still make the layer transaprencies valid to.

I spent the last couple of hours trying to work this greyscale thing out!