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I’ve got a packaging job that has a flat expanse of a spot colour with smaller CMYK elements floating over the top.
I’ve made the spot channel, knocking through the spot channel where I need the CMYK elements to sit. Obviously I need to create a trap.
I don’t want to use the Photoshop Trap function on these files, because that seems to SPREAD the spot channel over the CMYK elements, and it’ll impinge on the CMYK elements too much, visibly reducing their size.
What I need to do is clone the edge pixels of the CMYK elements OUT to create my trap, but I’m wondering if there’s a fast way to do it that doesn’t require me manually cloning the edge.
I suppose I’m trying to replicate the "offset path" function in illustrator.
Ideas?
– Also tried duping the layers and just transforming them, but it obviously doesn’t uniformly spread the edge.
I’ve made the spot channel, knocking through the spot channel where I need the CMYK elements to sit. Obviously I need to create a trap.
I don’t want to use the Photoshop Trap function on these files, because that seems to SPREAD the spot channel over the CMYK elements, and it’ll impinge on the CMYK elements too much, visibly reducing their size.
What I need to do is clone the edge pixels of the CMYK elements OUT to create my trap, but I’m wondering if there’s a fast way to do it that doesn’t require me manually cloning the edge.
I suppose I’m trying to replicate the "offset path" function in illustrator.
Ideas?
– Also tried duping the layers and just transforming them, but it obviously doesn’t uniformly spread the edge.
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