AboutGlen Demers Expertise I am an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop 7 and can answer any questions dealing with images for print; resolution, color correction, color space, sharpening and retouching. I am a prepress technician for Best Printing Online and if you want to know how to prepare your image for offset reproduction, I can help.
Experience I've been working in the prepress aspect of printing for 25 years and am currently a prepress technician for Best Printing Online I've worked with Photoshop since 1994 and have used all versions from 3 to CS3. I'm an ACE (Adobe certified expert) in Photoshop 7.0
Education/Credentials I graduated High School and took 1 year of College level offset printing course. I've attended 2 Photoshop World conferences and taken numerous seminars pertaining to Photoshop and the print industry.
Question I am (rustily) recreating a 2 spot colour logo in Pshop - going thru' the
process of selecting the green area>creating an alpha channel>filling
selection area with black etc. All the while I notice that the pantone swatch
library is greyed out and I cannot select a pantone colour... is this normal?
should I be able to select a spot colour palette/swatch during this process? I
will save the finished file as a DCS2 for the print house - but why is this
palette unavailable? Am I missing something?Thanks, Gee
Answer Hi Gee,
To make a two spot color photoshop document you have to be in multi-channel mode and select each channels color using the channel palette. Double click on the channel and then click on the channels swatch to bring up the color picker. The all channel preview will work but the swatches on the tool bar will be grey.
Hope this helps and I'm sorry for the delay,
Glen Demers
Adobe Certified Expert, Photoshop 7
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
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