Photoshop cc vs Photoshop cs 2 / spot colors channel problem?

spot colors channels photoshop cs 2 spotcolors cc recorded when I turn the channel comes in colorless How can I solve the problem by alpha?

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  • Creating a Spot Color Channel in Photoshop

    Can anyone teach me how to make a Spot Color Channel on Photoshop? I am using this image as an example. The blue color in the background needs to be printed mostly with a spot color that is close to the original painting color (ex: Pantone Blue 072C) . But the CMYK color still should be present in within the blues to resemble the subtle nuances of the brush strokes. I can’t figure it out on my own.
    For more samples of painting images, please go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/batzorig
    The reason I am doing this is because the artist’s works were represented on many publications over the years from many different countries. And we found out that CMYK color alone cannot duplicate the blue color very well (I mean the blue only, no problem with other colors). I know, it is hard to believe, but if you see all the publications and compare it to the original art, you would see the huge difference in color saturation and luminosity. That is the reason, I think it is necessary to use a spot blue for an upcoming catalog of the artist.
    It will be a huge help in my work progress if I learn to make the Spot Color Channel. Then I can talk with the printers about this method.

    Understanding color space diagrams for CIE(1931) and CIELab isn't easy,
    but gradually one gets used to interpret them by intuition.
    (1) helps understanding CIE(1931) chromaticity.
    The horseshoe contour contains all possible colors with luminance left
    out. Indicated colors are just for orientation. Yellow is the 'locus' for
    bright yellow  and brown (dark yellow) as well. White is the locus for
    white and black - colors without saturation at a certain center. For two
    colors on the same ray to the center, the color with larger distance is
    more brilliant or vibrant.
    You're right - adding green and orange ink in Hexachrome doesn't
    extend the gamut at the blue side. But Cyan and Magenta (and Yellow
    and Black) are different to common CMYK inks as well, and this
    delivers more brilliant blues.
    (2) shows the effect, now in CIELab in a horizontal slice for constant
    lightness. Besides theoretical aspects, the diagram can be (again) inter-
    preted by intuition.
    The complete diagram is threedimensional. A shown color is not just
    a placeholder (as in the CIE chromaticity diagram) but a more or less
    correct reproduction, as good as possible, depending on the medium.
    It seems indeed that there are few print houses using Hexachrome,
    but (3)  is one of them.
    What's to do for the actual catalog? Printing by inkjet would be a
    solution, because inkjets can use additional inks like Green, Orange,
    Blue, mostly by replacing standard inks like LightCyan, LightMagenta,
    Gray. The inkjet can be calibrated by GretagMacbeth ProfileMaker's
    Multicolor Module. That would be very expensive. Even without
    additional inks the blues can be reproduced fairly good.
    As already said - just adding a Spot Blue would cure the problem
    for some paintings, but there is no systematical workflow.
    If Hexachrome is not an option, then one may try to modify the
    blue in the image by shifting it towards cyan with less lightness,
    which is better printable.
    Of course wrong, but what finally counts is the impression.
    A friend of mine is a famous German photographer for calendars
    and tourist guide books which contain plenty images with blue skies.
    So far he got almost always pleasant print results - by applying
    appropriate image processing with Soft Proofing in Photoshop.
    Examples are in (4).
    It would be nice, if somebody who is practically working with
    Hexachrome or other Multicolor processes could contribute.
    About this question:
    I don't know if it is about LAB colors or Hexachrome colors.
    The CIE (1931) color space appears mainly by two representations:
    1. CIE xyY Chromaticity diagram (horseshoe)
    2. CIELab = Lab
    These are color spaces which contain all possible colors. Spot inks
    and primary inks (Pantone, CMYK, Hexachrome CMYKOG) can
    be shown in all diagrams.
    Best regards --Gernot Hoffmann 
    (1)
    http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&as_q=&as_epq=CIE+chromaticity+diagram&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_n lo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_righ ts=
    (2)
    http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww. pantone.com%2Fdownloads%2Farticles%2Fpdfs%2Fart_hex_primer.pdf&ei=CTJQUKnOEaWr0QWfg4DoDg&u sg=AFQjCNFx7-5XXealXZGPTQ5ek-A7FWb8gQ&cad=rja
    p.2
    (3)
    http://www.ellerhold.de/index/page/357/subContent/423/index.html
    (4)
    http://www.fho-emden.de/~hoffmann/labproof15092008.pdf
    Edited by author

  • Ungroup & Change PS spot color channels in illustrator!!

    In illustrator, how do you change a photoshop spot color channel that has been imported into illustrator. Ever since Illustrator CS2 you could import a psd into Illustrator and you could ungroup the channels and change the colors. How do you do that in CS3-6? I have been trying to figure this out for years. My old computer with Illustrator 10 is about to die and so will my ability to do what I descried above unless someone can clue me in.
    Thanks!!!

    It's not clear what you are having problems with. One would simply flatten the object and colorize the resulting "channels" with tints.
    Mylenium

  • Making a spot color channel of a selection

    I want to make a spot color channel out of the current selection.
    How can I use the seletion to make the new channel?
    tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS6"
        activate
        set useropacity to 50
        set teller to 1
        set userchannelname to "kleur " & teller
        set kleur to foreground color
        tell current document
            make new channel with properties {kind:spot color channel, name:userchannelname, channel color:kleur, opacity:useropacity}
        end tell
    end tell
    Maurits Brock

    tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"
      activate
              set useropacity to 50
              set teller to 1
              set userchannelname to "kleur " & teller
              set kleur to foreground color
              tell current document
      copy
      clear
      make new channel with properties ¬
                                  {kind:spot color channel, name:userchannelname, channel color:kleur, opacity:useropacity}
      paste
      invert selection
      clear
              end tell
    end tell

  • PSD Spot Color Channels in Illustrator CS4

    Hi all.
    Screenprinter here. Trying to migrate my way into CS4. No such
    luck so far.
    Way back in Illustrator CS2 I used to be able to place a PSD file with Spot Channels,
    and have each channel show up as a separate object in Illustrator. This was incredibly
    useful, nay, necessary for creating/laying out separations and adding vector work.
    From what I've read and tried, this is no longer possible in CS4, which leaves me running two versions,
    which is no fun.
    I suppose my question is, has anyone come up with a workaround for this, or does the newest
    release support this type of operation? From reading the boards, I've found that I'm not nearly
    the only person who needs this feature, and so would hope that there is an alternative to
    running CS2 still.
    Us poor lowly screen printers get dumped on by nearly all Adobe products in terms of usability
    (ever shoot the stock reg marks from photoshop?) give us this one feature!

    In Illustrator CS2, the individual Spot Channels from Photoshop used to become Opacity masks when imported.
    In Illustrator CS4, they are not converted to Opacity masks. Your spot colors are still there - look in the Swatches panel. There is a Spot channels image in the layers panel with 100% Multiply blend mode applied to it.
    So it is not correct to say that it is no longer possible to bring spot channels from Photoshop into the Illustrator CS4. See the comparison snapshots below.
    Hope this helps.

  • Photoshop Elements 9 Brush / Color Picker Problem

    Hello,
    I have been using Photoshop Elements 9 for more than a year, and recently I have been experiencing a glitch/malfunction of some sort with the color picker and hard mechanical brush tool.
    As you can see in my example above, there are two things wrong: 1.) When the brush is painted, little grey crescents appear between the individual strokes of the brush. These appear even when I do not release the mouse button when painting. However, it only happens on a specific layer, and not on any other layer - in this case the layer entitled 'skin'.
         The second malfunction is the color picker/foreground and background colors. As you can see, the foreground color selected in the example does not match the last color I painted (color splotch to the far left). The color that was actually painted was a far more saturated version of the selected color. Again, this only occurs on the 'skin' layer as well.
    (My brush settings are: Fade: 0 Hue Jitter: 0 Scatter: 0 Spacing: 1 Hardness: 100)
    Though these "glitches" are occurring often recently, I have found a temporary solution. Switching to another layer, then painting on it, then switching back to the malfunctioning layer seems to temporarily rid me of this issue. Yet and still, I would appreciate any permanent solution suggestions.
    Thanks,
    - Illustrator

    Delete the editor's preferences: quit it, then restart it (use the button in the welcome screen or organizer) while holding down ctrl+alt+shift. Keep the keys down till you see a window asking if you want to delete the settings file. You do.

  • CS6 Color Channel Problem When Saving Oil Paint Files

    When I save an OIL PAINT file created in Photoshop CS6, it saves with red and blue shapes over the image. Before saving, the image looks fine. I'm running windows 8. Is it me or a CS6 bug?

    There were some driver problems that caused single tile artifacts when running Oil Paint.
    Have you updated your video card driver from the GPU maker's website?

  • How to open Acrobat PDF contains spot colors with Photoshop?

    I'm looking for a simple way to open a pdf file that contains spot color channels with Photoshop. Currently Photoshop can open only CMYK channels. DCS can be a solution but Acrobat doesn’t have the option to save as DCS. Please advice.

    Are you referring to opening the entire PDF file in Photoshop or do you mean that you have the PDF file open in Acrobat and want to open one of the images into Photoshop for editing?
    Opening PDF files (created in other programs) in Photoshop is often a recipe for disaster... or rather a recipe to raster. 

  • Placing Photoshop files in Illustrator CS5 results in wrong percentages of spot colors?

    When placing a native PSD file into Illustrator CS5 that includes different percentages of spot colors they will be different than what was specified in Photoshop. The spot colors are overlaying CMYK to create a see thru look.
    For example if the spot color is 40% it will end up being 16%. 100% will stay at 100%, but any other percentage will be different than what is entered in Photoshop.
    We are able to see the difference when creating a PDF or when the file is output to our high end printer. It can also be visually seen when putting an Illustrator CS4 and and Illustrator CS5 side by side.
    I can take the same PSD file and place it into Illustrator CS4 and it retains the percentage that is entered in Photoshop. All percentages match the percentages that are entered in Photoshop when a PDF is created or printed to our printer.
    I have tried saving the PSD file out as a Tiff file and a DCS2.0 file and get the same results in Illustrator CS5.
    Is there a bug in Illustrator CS5 or should we handle our Spot Color Scans a different way? We never had this issue with any previous version of Illustrator.
    Any suggestions or solutions would be appreciated.
    Thanks

    Hi Mike,
    I understand what your saying but I should have mentioned that the Spot Colors are actually overlaying the CMYK in Photoshop not in Illustrator CS5. When this scan gets placed in Illustrator the Spot Colors values are different. There is no art below the scan in Illustrator. Hope this makes it a little clearer on what were trying to do.
    Also remember that it works just fine in any version of Illustrator before CS5.
    Thanks

  • Photoshop CS6 spot channel problems

    When I save a file created in Photoshop CS6 that has SPOT color channels it is converting the SPOT color channels to ALPHA channels when my customers are opening them into an older version of Photoshop.  This has never been a problem with earlier versions of Photoshop.
    Has anyone else had this problem and is there a solution?
    I don't know if it is a bug in CS6 or it is a setting or something I am not finding. I have never had to set anything before this version and I have been through anything I could think of to try & discover something, but no luck.
    Any help would be really appreciated as this can't keep happening.  I have had to be on the phone walking them through the steps to convert the ALPHA channels back to SPOT channels but do not have the time nor should I expect my customer to have to do it.
    Running Windows 7
    Help please!- Thank you

    I'm having the same issues and it seems this just started happening after the most recent update because this wasn't happening for the last couple months I've had CS6. Not only that I actually lost 4 hours of work after it didn't save the spot channels at all and just saved the original image (it's technically supposed to be impossible to do this without making a copy). On top of that now when my clients try to open my PSD files in previous versions it says they do not have the correct color books even though I'm not using spot colors (this did not happen before the update. I've sent several files in the past couple weeks). I'm not sure what they did recently but it really screwed things up.
    I'd like to know if anyone has a work around for the color book problem short of asking my clients to buy and install the new color books. I'm having to send the spots as EPS DCS files, so they can open it. It's always a headache when you upgrade and none of your clients do. Why can't they make this stuff work backwards?

  • Spot colors now missing in PDF!

    Issue: spot color channel not showing up in Photoshop generated PDFs. Worked previously, this just started last week.
    Workflow: receive PDF ads from client via email. Open file, usually Jpg, Tiff or PDF, in photoshop CS4. save as PSD, with new name, grayscale, 300 dpi for newspaper printing.
    some ads  get spot/PMS color added.  add spot channel. move art from grayscale layer to spot color layer. save file as PSD with spot colors. (for import to InDesign.) Photoshop file looks fine on screen.
    for Client proof, Save As "ad proof", turn OFF photoshop editing, so client does not change ad. Turn ON "as a copy", "spot color" and "view PDF".
    It worked fine for the past year, now, NOT. The PMS spot channel is not showing on the photoshop generated PDF, If I import the psd file into Indesign, and generate the PDF 1x version, same thing.
    Spent 7 hours on phone with tech support, they did not have a clue as to why or what was going on. I have uninstalled, deleted everything Adobe, and spent 7 hours reinstalling CS4.
    Newly installed Photoshop not working, same issue. Print to PDF using PDF 9.0 "printer"  not working.
    HELP!

    I just had a very similar problem using CS5 Master Suite.
    I had a CMYK job (a business card) that needed converting into a spot colour job.
    There was a logo in CMYK that was red, blue and black, so I created 3 new channels in Photoshop and separated the colours into each specific channel. I saved the logo as a Tiff file and imported the logo file into Indesign. On-screen it looked fine (black, red, blue) and I could see the new spot colours had imported into the swatches correctly. However, when I exported the Indesign file as a PDF, one of the spot colours was missing (the red one).
    So I changed the logo file (Tiff) into a Photoshop file hoping it would fix the bug, but no such luck.
    Out of interest, I duplicated the Red channel and repeated my procedure, this time when I made the PDF the blue channel that was there previously disappeared!!!
    When I checked the forum and heard that the poor person spent 7 hours with tech support, I thought bugger that, I just saved each channel as a separate Tiff file, dropped the black file onto the logo so that it was in place, then did a Step&Repeat (ie copied a duplicate of the logo ontop of itself), then dropped the new Tiff file on top of that and changed its colour to Red in the Swatches, and did the same with the blue file.
    Now I have a PDF file that shows all the different spot colours and I can go home on time tonight.
    I could do all this stuff on CS1. The only 'improvements' I have found in CS5 so far is that my beloved 'Variations' option in Photoshop has now disappeared because they couldn't be bothered to create this feature in 64 bit.

  • Spot colors not being saved.

    In CS6 I have been having random situations where the spot color channels are not saved when saving a .psd, regardless of the settings in the save dialog box. Any idea of why this might be happening? I've even had the program dump the spot colors from a multichannel document today while trying to find a workaround. I considered converting the spot colors to alpha channels as well, but there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to do that. Odd, as alpha to spot color conversion is just a radio button away. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

    This is on an Intel I Mac running Maverics 10.91 (lots of problems with that).
    These are RGD documents at 8 bits per channel. The layers have always been merged at this point.
    The spot colors involved are mostly book colors (Pantone Solid coated), though the program drops custom spot colors (u-white in the screen shot) as well on the occasions when it happens. This began occuring with CS6. I have noted in the forums that the book definitions may have changed, I am revising my actions to move to the current book definitions, though why this would affect a user defined spot color is unclear.In the cases where this occurs, only the "Art Mask" channel would be saved (it's an alpha).

  • Making a PDF with an image that has both spot colour channel and alpha channel

    Hi I have a logo that was supplied to us as a PSD it has a transparent background, it also has a pantone colour channel. I have made a alpha channel from the transparent background as well.
    The graphic looks fine in InDesign (alpha channel selected in the import options), ie the background is transparent.
    But when we try to make a Hi Res PDF the result is that the graphic is on a solid white background.
    If I go back to the PSD and merge the spot channel with so that it is just CMYK and try again the PDF is fine, but we obviously loose the spot colour.
    How do you make a PDF with a transparent PSD that has a spot colour?

    You know that annoying response from support staff? "We cannot replicate your issue". Well....
    I created a PSD in CS5, with a bunch of process stuff, then loaded a spot color channel and painted in some pawprints using Pantone 172C:
    Saved this as a PSD file, default settings (maximize compatibility on, but it doesn't make any difference in this situation).
    Created a new InDesign document in CS5, added a gradient and some text, then placed the PSD.  ID understands the PSD has an inbuilt background so there's no need to bother with a dedicated alpha mask:
    Exported from ID using the High Quality Print option (PDF/1.4, which keeps the live transparency):
    Re-exported to PDF/X-1a (based on PDF/1.3 which flattens transparency) - looks exactly the same. In all cases the spot channel is intact and the see-through regions of the PSD are maintained.

  • Only 1 spot color of Linked 2-channel Photoshop image appears in acrobat 9.0

    I just installed CS 4 design premium. I have a 2-color business package that was created in Illustrator CS2 with 2-color Photoshop links (spot color multichannel files saved as Photoshop DCS 2.0/eps).
    When working before in CS 2 my spot color links viewed just fine when I saved the Illustrator files as pdfs (smallest file size default). Now, working in CS 4 with Acrobat Pro 9, type & vector objects show fine in both colors, but the linked files only view with one of the spot colors. If I open output preview in Acrobat 9 the missing black channel shows up.
    All I want to do is send my client a final proof. How can get it to appear accurately on my pdf?

    Output Preview invokes Overprint Preview. Since the file displays as expected with Output Preview open, the Overprint Preview may be necessary to view the file properly.
    In Acrobat 9, the default for Overprint Preview is "Only for PDF/X". Overprint Preview was removed from the Menu list, but you can change it's default in Preferences:Page Display. I'd recommend using "Automatic" which looks at the file and determines if there is anything in the file that requires overprint preview to display. You can temporarily turn off "simulate overprinting" while the Output Preview dialog is open. You can also select "Color Warnings" and turn on Show Overprinting, the content should be painted with a highlight.
    Does this work?
    If you are sending a PDF to your client to view, they will need to look at the file with Overprint Preview on. They can download Reader 9 which will allow them to turn on Overprint Preview. Reader's default is also PDF/X compliant files, but this can be changed in the same Preferences area.

  • Created a CYMK vector shape logo in photoshop, now need to change to spot colors HELP!?

    I have created a 3 color logo with vector shapes in photoshop CS6.  The problem is the client wants it to be 3 spot colors rather than CYMK.  Does anyone have a quick and easy way for me to change the individual vector shape layers into various spot colors instead that maintains the vector quality?  I don't want to have to redraw all these shapes.  Help would be VERY appreciated with this.

    Your client is speaking in the language of Illustrator, in which spot colors represent specific, sometimes specialist colours.  I can think of no reason why you can't use Photoshop, but ask the client if they want to provide you with values for the spot colours?   If I understand it correctly, the printer will interpret each of the three spot colours you use, to represent the specific inks/colours the client needs.
    Use spot colors | Adobe Illustrator CC tutorials
    You encounter it sometimes when printing catalogs which contain sponsor logos.  I can remember once getting an incredibly detailed PDF from Canon on how we could use their logo, with warnings of dire consequences if we got it wrong.

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