Photoshop 2-color RGB to specific Pantone colors for InDesign?
taffym (5 pencils) | Wed, 2008-01-30 15:35Is it possible to convert a Photoshop 2-color RGB eps file to a 2-color Pantone specific eps for an InDesign Project? It seems I can only convert it to a CMYK and I'm trying to limit the entire project print plates to two Pantone colors. Unfortunately, I need to incorporate this specific image to my entire. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
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Can you post the two color image so we can see it? Will help address the problem.
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2-color and RGB just don't compute with me.
If you have an RGB image open in photoshop, that means it is using Red, Green and Blue color spaces to create whatever colors you're looking at on your screen - including black.
You have to convert the photoshop document to a "duotone" in order to work with specific spot colors. I have only done this on rare occasions, as I feel it's a tremendous headache.
Hopefully someone has a better answer for you, but the only way I know to use spot colors and MAINTAIN them as spot colors within photoshop and when using the pshop image in InDesign is to make the image a "duotone" image.
Google "photoshop duotones" for more info.
You may have made a RED 'plate' and a BLUE 'plate' (or green) in RGB. If that's the case, YUP! You're in luck.
Duplicate both channels into new channels.
Convert to CMYK (the red, blue plates will still be there after conversion)
Delete all the information in your CMYK channels (execpt the R, B you dup'd)
Set the R and B channels to whatever PANTONE you want.
If I guessed right, you're ready to go.
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Right. You have to do it in channels. It is a very hard process to get "just right". I am sitll learning at work as we turn all photographic images into spot colors due to our printing process.
Why are you doing it? I would recommend letting your printer handle it as they may specialize in this. If not, then seperate each "color" into a spot channel.
I'm wondering though what the image looks like. You might just want to take it into Illustrator and live trace it. Or just redraw it.