Changing a CMYK to Spot Color Image

spot3 In this video we’re going to change our 5 color image down to 3 spot colors. Very powerful technique to reduce printing costs and plates involved. You can create some really cool images this way. Watch the video below now!

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#1 klakf
July 1, 2009 6:28 am

I’ve had to do this before, but ran into trouble with the file extension. It only lets me save in either a DCS 2.0 or PSD format. Could the same result be achieved by converting the image to a tritone and saving as an eps?
Also, do you have to convert to spot colors in the cmyk mode, or can you do the same from an rgb document?
Also, what about converting a cmyk image to spot colors where the colors don’t overlap, but only touch?

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#2 ErnstWalther
January 29, 2009 4:44 am

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