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    • May 6, 2010 at 6:56 am #55649
      levshin22
      Member

      Hi everyone,

      I am doing a two colour job for a client. The colours are a Pantone Yellow and Pantone Coated Black 6C.

      I really want nice rich images in this publication (its being printed on satin stock).

      Whats the best way to prepare these images in Photoshop to do this…should I use the Monotone feature and save as a PSD?

      I know this is really a PS question, but PS and ID really are used together.

      Also I have a solid shape in Black 6C over the top of a full page set to Pantone 113C. Should I set the top shape to overprint or not?

      Any help would really be appreciated.

      Oh and Mr Blatner….your tutorials on Indesign through Lynda.com are amazing! Thank you

      Simon

    • May 11, 2010 at 1:13 am #55671
      Eelco
      Participant

      You could use duotone within PS. Image > duotone (you probably have to first convert it to grayscale).

    • May 11, 2010 at 2:44 am #55672
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      https://layersmagazine.com/spot…..esign.html

    • May 11, 2010 at 4:46 am #55673
      Tim Hughes
      Member

      Not sure I agree with saving as a DCS file, these days I would be more likely to save as a psd file, but as he says talk to your printer.

    • May 11, 2010 at 4:51 am #55674
      levshin22
      Member

      Thanks Tim,

      That tut was helpful indeed, but I've come to realise theres just no way I can get a nice tonally rich monotone image using Pantone Black 6C! It just wont work. I will go back to using grayscale I think. Ah print technology for all its bells and whistles is still just ink on paper.

      Simon

    • May 11, 2010 at 4:54 am #55675
      levshin22
      Member

      Oh and Tim,

      one more thing mate….I recently upgraded to CS5…well worth the upgrade price…..

      However I am doing this 2 colour job….when I turn overprint preview on in Indesign…I get the out of memory error dialogue…now I am on a very fast mac with 8GB of ram!! Canot find any fixes online and thre are no updates available for the app.

      I have turned image previews down to typical….I do have an illustrator file (not too much artwork), but I deleted it and tried again….still no luck….what do you make of this??

      Kind regards

      Simon

    • May 11, 2010 at 5:55 am #55676
      Anonymous
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      Tim Hughes said:Not sure I agree with saving as a DCS file, these days I would be more likely to save as a psd file, but as he says talk to your printer.

      Yes I wouldn't be saving as DCS anymore – PSD all the way for me. But older workflows might not be able for PSDs or something.

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