Spot Colours In Photoshop CS5

Spot Colours In Photoshop

Drop down menu in Swatches - Select Pantone Solid Uncoated and all the colours are added to your swatches

Refer to the spot colour by its unique reference code

Above - Select Colour Libaries

Above - Then it gives you the unique reference code for Pantone, and can be refered to the Pantone swatch book

Duo tone image

Start off with a greyscale image

Make your you have a good balance under brightness and contrast

Image - Mode - Duotone

Automatic appears when saved as PSD into Indesign

Above - Duotone from Image - Mode. Click on Black to Select a Pantone colour Spot Colour

Above - Use Pantone Process Uncoated for matt stock, and select your spot colour

Above - Select the other colour as well, same method

Above - Duotone

Above - Change the curve under Duotone

Above - The outcome using the Duotone

Under Duotone options you can also choose Tritone and Quadtone for spot colours.

Spot Colour Selected in a selection of area. Boat

Selection - Pen tool

Channels - New Spot Colour

Above - Remember to tick spot colours when saving so can be transfered to Indesign

Above - Make selection of area you want the spot colour to be

Above - Channels - Drop down Menu at side - New Spot Channel

Above - Select and this is what it looks like

Spot Varnish

This is the same way you would create a Spot Varnish as well. But make sure the Pantone colour I select to be the spot varnish isn't used anywhere else in the documents and when at the printers mention that the spot colour pantone 172a is not the pantone 172a colour but instead a varnish.