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• • October 15, 2010 at 8:48 am #57389
    Duncan Comics

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    So here's the situation.

    I have a printing guideline that says i can only have black and one colour.

    The standard that i've done before was to take the images i wanted to appear in my printed material into photoshop drop the saturation and make it a grey scale image. I then bring it into indesign and put a one colour solid ontop of them and change said solid to the colour blending mode… my question.

    If i avoided using photoshop to desaturate my images and just use a coloured image… will putting a solid over top with a colour blending mode force the final output to see only my one colour?

    -Dunk

  • October 15, 2010 at 12:43 pm #57394
    Bob Levine

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    Desaturating does not remove the color from the image, it just makes it look grayscale. You need to convert to grayscale. If you know what Pantone color you'll be using, you might want to convert that to duotone in Photoshop. That will give you greater control than just colorizing it in InDesign.

  • October 15, 2010 at 12:48 pm #57396
    Duncan Comics

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    Ohhhh good idea,

    i never thought about the duotone option.

    Thanks Bob!

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