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Dottonedan:
Saving Photoshop Spot channels so they can be printed Via vector program.


For me, when I do seps in Photoshop, I include the registration marks and the colors and print sequence on each color.  If these are printed out (one at a time) to film, they will be more sure to align up after an individual output.


The following is an example in case you receive separations (in photoshop channels) but you want to print them out of a vector program like Illustrator or Corel Draw.



* To have each color as it's own file, you can SPLIT them up.
Open Photoshop,  delete the shirt color if you have any before the separations. There should be NO shirt color. Nothing but separation channels.


Go to the TOP right side of the channels list, and click on that little drag down area for options. Scroll down to SPLIT channels.   This breaks that file up into individual colors/files.


Save as a copy as .psd, .eps, or .tif and place into Illustrator. Print (one at a time).




* The other option is to have all separations in one file as a DCS2.
Open the file back up in Photoshop, Delete the shirt color, and then SAVE AS A COPY, DCS2. Then choose 8 bit pixel, then SINGLE FILE, COLOR COMPOSITE.


Then PLACE and LINK the file into your Illustrator file. BE SURE TO LINK.  If you do not, click LINK, you are telling Illustrator to make this file (part of) and ai file. Illustrator does not want you to embed large files into Illustrator as it bogs down the program and causes glitches. Therefore, it only allows you to LINK. When you LINK another file, it doe snot become PAR TOF the Illustrator file, but only refers to that Photoshop file. For this reason, you must always keep that linked file in the same location folder, so that it can be found again later if you ever spent hat file up again. PLACE and LINK.

You will now have the file and it's spot channel colors in the color swatch list. You can add vector art and sign it one of these Pantone colors and all of the photoshop art and the vector art will print out together one one film.




Thanks,
Dan

Atownsend:
Thanks for this. I usually use the "add RGB channels" action from ultra seps, but I can see this being very helpful!

Sbrem:
Thanks for the reminder yesterday, I'm guessing that prompted this tut? I haven't used DCS in a few years since we became able to import the .psd with channels, but I learned it originally waaaaayyyy back...

Steve

Dottonedan:
Sbrem,
Yes,  you were what caused it all.  LOL.   But that's a good thing. :)


That also led me to do another that I haven't post dup yet, but will. There are 4-5 things that I am constantly explain to people about.  This was just one of them but common.


Many people want me to give them files split up into individual colors.  Many people don't know how or hasn't been taught how to put them into the vector files themselves and they don't deal with this in-house since they are alway working in vector only.


Interestingly, it would be a good but long tutorial on the many different way to place files and print files to film.

ebscreen:
If you place a spot channel PSD in Illy it doesn't display correctly because the individual channels are set to "multiply" transparency.
It will print correctly however, and does not require separating to individual layers or files. One set of reg marks and your screen info
set to same color as plate and away you go.

If you change the opacity of the channels to "normal" it will display correctly, albeit with the channels in reverse order from PS.
(I could shoot Adobe for that) It will not print correctly though, knocking out the channel beneath it.

Long story short:

Place spot channel PSD in Illy
Embed

For mockups/display set individual channels to normal opacity and reverse order top to bottom.

For output leave as is add reg marks/screen info and print.

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