Comments on: Photoshop Tutorial: Preserving Spot Colours in Photoshop http://designorati.com/articles/t1/graphic-design/138/preserving-spot-colours-in-photoshop.php A 360-Degree View of the Creative World Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:44:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.10 by: GAUTAM http://designorati.com/articles/t1/graphic-design/138/preserving-spot-colours-in-photoshop.php#comment-76954 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:40:36 +0000 http://designorati.com/articles/t1/graphic-design/138/preserving-spot-colours-in-photoshop.php#comment-76954 HI I HAVE A TIFF FILE WITH A SPOT COLOUR BACKGROUND AND CMYK IMAGES ON FRONT....AND I AM USING QUARK 6.5 HOW WILL I BE ABLE TO SPLIT THE COLOURS IN QUARK.... I AM SORRY IF ITS A SIMPLE QUESTION I AM OUT OF SORTS... GAUTAM HI I HAVE A TIFF FILE WITH A SPOT COLOUR BACKGROUND AND CMYK IMAGES ON FRONT….AND I AM USING QUARK 6.5 HOW WILL I BE ABLE TO SPLIT THE COLOURS IN QUARK….
I AM SORRY IF ITS A SIMPLE QUESTION I AM OUT OF SORTS…
GAUTAM

]]> by: Jeremy Schultz http://designorati.com/articles/t1/graphic-design/138/preserving-spot-colours-in-photoshop.php#comment-296 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:17:50 +0000 http://designorati.com/articles/t1/graphic-design/138/preserving-spot-colours-in-photoshop.php#comment-296 Thank you, Elisabetta, for this tutorial on using spot channels in Photoshop. One note about DCS: nowadays it's practically a legacy format, for back in the day when graphics had to be pre-separated so Quark could pass the plates through without much fuss. But DCS files do not work with transparency, nor do they export but as seps, so it's a good idea to start phasing them out of your workflow if you haven't already. I recommend Photoshop files if you're working in InDesign, or even better are Photoshop PDF files. They retain spot color channels very well. Here's is an article about the change. It's from 2002 but it still applies AFAIK: http://www.nickhodge.com/mne.php?mcid=711 Thank you, Elisabetta, for this tutorial on using spot channels in Photoshop.

One note about DCS: nowadays it’s practically a legacy format, for back in the day when graphics had to be pre-separated so Quark could pass the plates through without much fuss. But DCS files do not work with transparency, nor do they export but as seps, so it’s a good idea to start phasing them out of your workflow if you haven’t already.

I recommend Photoshop files if you’re working in InDesign, or even better are Photoshop PDF files. They retain spot color channels very well.

Here’s is an article about the change. It’s from 2002 but it still applies AFAIK:

http://www.nickhodge...com/mne.php?mcid=711

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