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Hello, all.
I would appreciate some help with my understanding of using spot colours.
This has never come up for me before, I always did electronic stuff, or the printing was done in CMYK colour. Right now though, I have to assist in the printing of a political poster for a municipal election. After the poster was created, they came back saying the printing cost was too expensive and to cut down on costs, they are using a 2 spot colour option.
The things I do not understand with spot colours are can I use a gradient and can I use a black and white photo?
Doing research on the matter it seems to me that a gradient is possible, but I have to be carefull and make sure that is a gradient going from 100% of the spot colour to 0% of the same spot colour, not spot colour to white. Is this just something that will appear on the screen, but not print, or should the gradient appear as a gradient when printed?
I followed a tutorial I found online to create the gradient. What I did, as I was instructed, was create an alpha channel then used the gradient tool (set to go from black to white) while having just that alpha channel selected. then I clicked on the alpha channel and used a dialouge box that came up to change it to a spot colour and selected the spot colour that I will be using. Does this sound like it will work?
The object the image gets printed on is white. One of the spot colours I can use is a black. So if I copy a black and white photo of the candidate onto the channel for the black spot colour will that print correctly? And by "correctly" I mean will it print looking like a photo of a person?
Thank you muchly for any help you can provide.
I would appreciate some help with my understanding of using spot colours.
This has never come up for me before, I always did electronic stuff, or the printing was done in CMYK colour. Right now though, I have to assist in the printing of a political poster for a municipal election. After the poster was created, they came back saying the printing cost was too expensive and to cut down on costs, they are using a 2 spot colour option.
The things I do not understand with spot colours are can I use a gradient and can I use a black and white photo?
Doing research on the matter it seems to me that a gradient is possible, but I have to be carefull and make sure that is a gradient going from 100% of the spot colour to 0% of the same spot colour, not spot colour to white. Is this just something that will appear on the screen, but not print, or should the gradient appear as a gradient when printed?
I followed a tutorial I found online to create the gradient. What I did, as I was instructed, was create an alpha channel then used the gradient tool (set to go from black to white) while having just that alpha channel selected. then I clicked on the alpha channel and used a dialouge box that came up to change it to a spot colour and selected the spot colour that I will be using. Does this sound like it will work?
The object the image gets printed on is white. One of the spot colours I can use is a black. So if I copy a black and white photo of the candidate onto the channel for the black spot colour will that print correctly? And by "correctly" I mean will it print looking like a photo of a person?
Thank you muchly for any help you can provide.
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