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Tyla - this is the query I posted on the Adobe site.. will post the most informative answer I had in a mo
Have PS 5.5
I've been designing some album artwork for a band and it has recently gone to the printers. Problem is that they want to print in a 2 color mode (the pantone & black), but I submitted the artwork in CMYK mode to the printers.
They got back to me and said that there were more colors than the two and could I re-submit the files in the two colors (and white of course).
What is the simplest method of altering the artwork I have already designed?
Have PS 5.5
I've been designing some album artwork for a band and it has recently gone to the printers. Problem is that they want to print in a 2 color mode (the pantone & black), but I submitted the artwork in CMYK mode to the printers.
They got back to me and said that there were more colors than the two and could I re-submit the files in the two colors (and white of course).
What is the simplest method of altering the artwork I have already designed?
I tried the duotone but didn't have much luck. The basic colours of my design are pantone 661, black and white.
When I changed to duotone and chose the pantone and black the whole image darkened significantly and lost a lot of definition. Tried the pantone and white but then the black sections of the pictures became a shade of the pantone.
Am gonna try the multichannel suggestion next over the weekend.
I have jpegs of the original artwork on me, so if you want I could email some to you..?
When I changed to duotone and chose the pantone and black the whole image darkened significantly and lost a lot of definition. Tried the pantone and white but then the black sections of the pictures became a shade of the pantone.
Am gonna try the multichannel suggestion next over the weekend.
I have jpegs of the original artwork on me, so if you want I could email some to you..?
Had a go at the suggestion you had previously...
Very simple
Quicker process....
Image - Mode - Multichannel
Kill off two colors
Change one channel to black by dbl clicking on it and selecting black
Change layer two to Pantone by repeating dbl click and selecting Pantone reference...
Save as EPS
Voila
File done!;-)
Very simple
Quicker process....
Image - Mode - Multichannel
Kill off two colors
Change one channel to black by dbl clicking on it and selecting black
Change layer two to Pantone by repeating dbl click and selecting Pantone reference...
Save as EPS
Voila
File done!;-)
Life wuld be a little easier if i could see the image!!
Make a copy of the original file (Save copy as PSD)
On the copy:
Image - Adjust - Greyscale
then
Image - Adjust - Duotone
Select Dutotonem the first ink as Black second ink as the pantone you want... Then OK
You should now have an image in black and Pantone...
Save as Photoshop EPS...
Are you outputting just as a PD file or supplying seperations through something like Quark...
On the copy:
Image - Adjust - Greyscale
then
Image - Adjust - Duotone
Select Dutotonem the first ink as Black second ink as the pantone you want... Then OK
You should now have an image in black and Pantone...
Save as Photoshop EPS...
Are you outputting just as a PD file or supplying seperations through something like Quark...
And the best reply I had was.... oh yeah I aint had a chance to try this yet...
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Craw
Here's an idea. It might work but you have to ask your printer if they accept DSC EPS files (I guess they do but, just in case). It depends as well in the colours and shades your file is made of. So, please, do save a backup copy of what you have now.
1) Take a look at your PSD CMYK file. You have to discard two channels(throwing them to the trash bin). Choose those two that will preserve together the most detail of the CMYK original image. If you see that, for example, keeping Magenta and Black channels you'll save most of the image, discard Cyan and yellow. The file now will be a Multichannel, not a CMYK one.
2) Now you make double click on the "Magenta" channel (channel's palette) and choose the Pantone ink you want to use. Tweak channel's curves as needed (not too much!).
However it might happen that you'd need to preserve some detail that was mainly present in a discarded channel (let's say Cyan). I think what follows could be a solution: Before discarding that chanell make Ctrl+click over its name in the channels palette. Now you'll have a partial selection (Shadows if you happen to work as I do with Quick mask preferences set to "selected areas").
All you have to do is select then another channel (black or Magenta depends on the picture itlself) by clicking once at its name and then fill it (Shift+F5) with Black 100%. So you'll have "recovered" some values of the Cyan channel into the black or magenta ones. If it's too dark then, undo that and fill it again but now with only 50% or whatever value suits most.
To end the thing, save it as a EPS DSC file (ASCII encoding, 8 bit preview, multiple file colour compound).
Please, keep in mind that the preview you see in a Multichannel is a "gross guess" of what you'll print and that inks overprint by default in Photoshop. So, to knock out something you have to knock it "really" out of the file.
I think it's easier than it seems. But may be somebody has a better, faster and more reliable idea.
Gustavo Sánchez
(Posted from Spain)
Ps. Posting a low-rez copy of the file somewhere in Internet might help a lot to give better pieces of advice.
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Craw
Here's an idea. It might work but you have to ask your printer if they accept DSC EPS files (I guess they do but, just in case). It depends as well in the colours and shades your file is made of. So, please, do save a backup copy of what you have now.
1) Take a look at your PSD CMYK file. You have to discard two channels(throwing them to the trash bin). Choose those two that will preserve together the most detail of the CMYK original image. If you see that, for example, keeping Magenta and Black channels you'll save most of the image, discard Cyan and yellow. The file now will be a Multichannel, not a CMYK one.
2) Now you make double click on the "Magenta" channel (channel's palette) and choose the Pantone ink you want to use. Tweak channel's curves as needed (not too much!).
However it might happen that you'd need to preserve some detail that was mainly present in a discarded channel (let's say Cyan). I think what follows could be a solution: Before discarding that chanell make Ctrl+click over its name in the channels palette. Now you'll have a partial selection (Shadows if you happen to work as I do with Quick mask preferences set to "selected areas").
All you have to do is select then another channel (black or Magenta depends on the picture itlself) by clicking once at its name and then fill it (Shift+F5) with Black 100%. So you'll have "recovered" some values of the Cyan channel into the black or magenta ones. If it's too dark then, undo that and fill it again but now with only 50% or whatever value suits most.
To end the thing, save it as a EPS DSC file (ASCII encoding, 8 bit preview, multiple file colour compound).
Please, keep in mind that the preview you see in a Multichannel is a "gross guess" of what you'll print and that inks overprint by default in Photoshop. So, to knock out something you have to knock it "really" out of the file.
I think it's easier than it seems. But may be somebody has a better, faster and more reliable idea.
Gustavo Sánchez
(Posted from Spain)
Ps. Posting a low-rez copy of the file somewhere in Internet might help a lot to give better pieces of advice.
Tyla - this is the query I posted on the Adobe site.. will post the most informative answer I had in a mo
Have PS 5.5
I've been designing some album artwork for a band and it has recently gone to the printers. Problem is that they want to print in a 2 color mode (the pantone & black), but I submitted the artwork in CMYK mode to the printers.
They got back to me and said that there were more colors than the two and could I re-submit the files in the two colors (and white of course).
What is the simplest method of altering the artwork I have already designed?
Have PS 5.5
I've been designing some album artwork for a band and it has recently gone to the printers. Problem is that they want to print in a 2 color mode (the pantone & black), but I submitted the artwork in CMYK mode to the printers.
They got back to me and said that there were more colors than the two and could I re-submit the files in the two colors (and white of course).
What is the simplest method of altering the artwork I have already designed?