Exporting Pantone Colors from Photoshop?
bullzeyedesign1 (6 pencils) | Fri, 2008-12-05 17:24I'm working on a Catalog for a client and there's about 150 existing pages that I'm adding to. Some of the images from other sections are moving to a new section that has a different color scheme throughout (gradients, background, and borders).
One file in particular has an image that's silhouetted out and floating over a header bar that's supposed to be Pantone 117C. Throughout the catalog, spot colors are used for the "main" section color. When I changed the bar to the new Pantone in photoshop and exported as a TIF, in InDesign the color looks completely different... like it's exported it as CMYK... so that one single bar on the page doesn't match the colors of Pantone 117 used throughout.
I've thought about converting everything to CMYK for the main color, but the client is ridiculously picky and took about 3 weeks to finally choose the color. So.. I can't.
I've attached an example with the 'wrong' color circled in red. Any help is very much appreciated.
-Amy
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TIF does not handle pantone colors. If you want to export an image using a pantone color inside the image file, you'll need to export as EPS.
I tried it in EPS as well with the same result.
Save the file as a PSD file. That's the easiest way.
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You could try making the bar in InDesign (or your layout program if not ID) as pantone and overprint it (to approximate the effect of the glasses frame on the color) and knock out the text, as long as you're printing on white paper.
The problem with rasterization is it's not very effective at retaining pantone colors, though more recent versions of PS are much better at this.
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export your document to PDF, then use Acrobat pro to edit the color mapping of the image... chances are you're giving the printer a PDF anyway right? If that doesn't work then you can edit the image colors and save as a PS color separation file to replace the one in your document
I remember the first method was preferable though for some reason.
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1) TIFF's handle spot colors. PSD with spots should would work fine too.
2) I wasn't aware Acrobat could change CMYK elements into spots. Can you elaborate?
Using a transparent layered PSD file and allowing INDD to overprint the raster black shadow upon a vector INDD spot color element should work nicely. Ensure shadow is set to pure black or you'll introduce a CMYK mix of the spot color where the shadow meets the spot --- and that would look pretty bad.
Another method is to set the spot directly in Photoshop itself. Select the Channels tab in Photoshop and select the "Make New Spot Channel..." from the channels pull down menu. This method is a bit harder as you'll have to set your overprints and knockouts manually in the channel and I'd prefer to let INDD do this for me.
BTW. Can I get a feature that allows me to upload screen shots when replying to posts? This is pretty hard to explain without graphics.
Thanks guys.
Without my sense of direction, I don't know where I'd be.
my bad, TIF won't handle duotones, but you're right, you can create spot channels.
still, if you're in an adobe workflow, there's no real reason to do it in a TIF file. if your transparency is set properly in PS, you can place the PSD file instead and do the spot colored bar in InDy (which you explained fairly well, i think).
I used to use Enfocus Pitstop, which is a plug-in for Acrobat, so it's hard to recall what options belonged to Pitstop and which were native to Acrobat since they are all found in the Acrobat menu system when Pitstop is installed, but I believe that was one of the options that was included with both. It's in the same menu as used when changing page box sizes and font mapping. This is in Acrobat Pro, not Reader
"...and mamma cried: Watch out where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow" - Frank Zappa
Save as a PSD. Check your separations palette, if it's okay there, then it's ok.