Spot colors are separated from other print colors, such as process CMYK colors, and printed on separate cylinders on a commercial printing press.Īctivate the Channels panel (Window>Channels) and from the Channels panel flyout menu, choose New Spot Channel. Note: Assign a spot color to print a very specific color not reproducible with CMYK inks and only add a spot color to an image bound for printing on a commercial printing press. This is the selection to which we’ll assign a spot color. Now Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on this layer’s thumbnail to select the type.
( Tip: If your printer hasn’t told you which custom profile to select, choose the type of press and paper on which you’ll be printing.)Ĭlick on the rasterized type layer in the Layers panel to make it active. Click OK and then click Don’t Flatten in the warning dialog that appears. Be sure to uncheck the Flatten Image checkbox to maintain the layers. Sheetfed Coated v2, one of the built-in CMYK profiles. In the dialog, select a CMYK Destination Space Profile appropriate for the printing device on which you’ll be printing this image. To convert your layered RGB image to a layered CMYK file, choose Edit>Convert to Profile. In our example, we rasterized the signature text layer: Just Control-click (PC: Right-click) on it in the Layers panel and choose Rasterize Type. In contrast, editable type maintains a harder, sharper edge and will remain linked to its external font files. Rasterized type blends in nicely with its surroundings and takes on a softer blended edge and it will no longer be linked to any external font files, thereby simplifying the image. That way, I can assume all images without a color space label are RGB.ģ DECIDE WHICH TYPE LAYER TO KEEP EDITABLEĭecide which text layer you want to rasterize (convert to pixels) and which you want to keep as editable. In fact, I label any image in a color space other than RGB, such as Index color or LAB. Tip: I label all my CMYK colors pace images with the CMYK suffix so I can tell at a glance these images have been converted to CMYK. Make a Duplicate copy of this image by choosing Image>Duplicate, and name this image with the suffix “CMYK” (here, “Alaska Frosting_Layered_CMYK”). After we convert the file to a PDF, we’ll look at how these type layers and spot color translate into InDesign and back into Photoshop. We’ll also rasterize the other type layer and add a spot color. In each case, the font files will either remain external to the image (PSD and TIFF) or lack editability (EPS). Typically, we’d save this image as a PSD, TIFF, or EPS.
We’ll be keeping one layer of type editable, which means it will be linked to active font files external to your image. Open an RGB image in Photoshop and set two type layers (preferably PostScript or OpenType). Here are some tips for creating and working with high-quality PDF graphic images. This allows you to take advantage of the PDF’s inclusiveness, editability, printability, and inherent Internet compatibility. You can also save graphic images-and in particular, commercial print-bound graphics-as PDF images. Almost everyone uses PDF for saving and sharing entire documents, such as InDesign files.
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