Can you tint a b/w photo with a custom color?

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Patti_Prendergast
Nov 16, 2006
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I am a Photoshop beginner and can’t seem to find the answer to this question. In Photoshop CS, I want to tint a black and white photo with a specific PMS color. Can this be done and how?

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chrisjbirchall
Nov 16, 2006
* Create a new layer

* Fill with the required colour

* Set the layer mode to colour.
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LenHewitt
Nov 16, 2006
Chris,

That won’t preserve the Pantone as a spot colour…

Patti,

Take a look at Duotone. File>Mode>Duotone. Select monotone if you wish to print in a single spot colour or Duotone if you wish to print in Black + Spot colour.

There are sample duotone curves on your disk. Worth investigating them.

If you wish to colour only a section of an image in Spot colour, you will need to add a spot colour channel from the channels palette and then cut/paste the area from the Black channel to the colour channel.
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Mark_Reynolds
Nov 16, 2006
Yes Patti – the answer really depends on the kind of work you are doing. If you want ROUGHLY that color, and that will do then go with Chris, run out a couple of proofs to get it near as you can. If its a specified Pantone that you really need, ie its your clients brand color then you need to produce a spot duotone channel file and send it to a specialist printer as Len has said.

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