I have an image with gradations in it and I want to make it one spot color.. how do I do that?

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Chris Baham
Nov 17, 2006
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I have a "banner" with a lot of different gradients in it to show the curving of the banner. Its like a ribbon. Anyway, I need to print it as one spot color. I tried to desaturate it and then apply a Layer Style Color Overlay of PMS 185U. However, after I drop it into ID, and look at my separations, its got all kinds of CMYK in it.

How would I go about getting only 185U red in the document with no other CMYK junk? Thanks,

Chris
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Buko
Nov 17, 2006
Make it grayscale and color it in ID
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Chris Baham
Nov 17, 2006
Geez… duh! Thanks!
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Chris Baham
Nov 17, 2006
Wait.. I cant color a greyscale PSD in ID? Do I have to make it a TIFF?
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Buko
Nov 17, 2006
yes you can as long as it does not contain transparency
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Chris Baham
Nov 17, 2006
Meh.. guess so. I got it working. Thanks for the reminder =)

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