PMS colors in Photoshop to be used in InDesign?

Hi,
I have a logo file that I'm doing in Photoshop that I want to throw into my InDesign document (a gift certificate - I like using ID so that the text is crisp), and this will be printed in 2 PMS colors (metallic gold 873 and green 330) on an offset printer. If I want to print my logo in PMS gold 873, is it better to use the Pantone library in Photoshop and save as a CMYK file (is that correct?) and then place that file into my ID document? Or someone told me to make the logo document a grayscale file, up the black in Levels and make sure the K in Info is 100%, flatten and save as a TIFF, place it in ID, then using the direct selection tool, pick the Pantone 873 in ID's swatches to color it in. When I ask which is "better," I mean final print quality-wise. The latter route looks a bit "fuzzy" to me when I blow it up in the PDF on-screen, whereas the first route looked sharper to me.
Thanks,
Jen

Unless your logo requires a photographic element, Photoshop is really one of the worst tools to be using to create a logo, especially if you are having issues with fuzziness.
Illustrator is more often used for logo creation.
If you do not have Illustrator, you can use InDesign to create a logo and export/save the page as an EPS file that can be re-placed in another InDesign document and scaled to any size without fuzziness.

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I was working on a print project for my company and all files are created in Illustrator CC. Here is the confusing part, in this logo color file I found from the company inside files, the PMS color code actually matches the CMYK color code, and they look exactly the same on screen:
But on all the files I'm working on, the PMS color looks washed, when using the convert button to convert PMS to CMYK, the code looks different too:
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The Color Mode of the swatch only impacts how the the color appears on your monitor. The important thing is that the Color Type always be "Spot Color" regardless of the Color Mode when you're dealing with files for print. If it's set to Spot Color, then exporting the file to film will have a single color pass. If it's set to Process Color you'll get 1-4 color passes when exporting depending on your CMYK values.
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I'm having a whale of a time figuring out to do this in the current version. I've been futzing around in edit/edit colors using the two pms colors I've chosen and although I can get tints of each color I can't seem to figure out how to get blends of the tints of each color.
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No reason to expand the spot color gradient they separate fine.
The explanation about overprint and it being an older persons tool is that many younger professionals are not taught production, the idea of overprint is totally foreign to them amongst other production wise work flow.
There are users in their forties that have production experience. That does not mean all young people are ignorant of their craft but it is less of an issue for them as other people take up the slack.
We see it all the time on the forum, unusual things like users not converting RGB image files to cmyk in photoshop before placing them into an Illustrator file nd wondering why the color is off.
They often confuse dpi for ppi. the do not know the difference between spot colors and process color equivalent, don't know the difference between vector and raster! the list goes on.
They don't understand why you can't overprint to cmyk process colors.
There aree really an interesting lack of apprentiship in the filed these days.
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I'm not so much concerned about print production issues as I am about document-creation issues.
So document preparation is nothing to do with print production?? That's new.
I want to at least be able to match PMS colors because our logos and other graphic elements are specific PMS colors, and I'd like to be able to do more that just eyeball them to get the same colors when I recreate the documents in Pages.
Do you want to match the COLOUR or do you want to print a custom COLOURANT? You will not match the COLOUR if you print a custom COLOURANT, that is, you will not match the colour of your Pantone swatch if you specify a Pantone in your document.
Surprised? Don't be. Pantone is specified for 100% solid ink, a certain tone value increase, and a certain lightness and tint of paper. If you don't print 100% solid, on the same paper, with the same tone value increase, you don't get the colour match.
If you want to match the COLOUR, first, determine and download the ICC PRTR Printer profile for your intended printing condition, and second, determine the closest process combination using the CIELa*b for the Pantone solid in a colourimetric match.
You have been able to do this for a decade with the free download of the functioning ColorPicker in GretagMacbeth ProfileMaker 4 and higher or GretagMacbeth Eye-One Match. Before that you could do something of the same with the X-Rite ColorShop software.
Adobe Photoshop has had CIELa*b data for solid Pantones for some time, too.
If you design with Pantones and save into Adobe page description models whether Encapsulated PostScript or Portable Document Format, the Pantones will be name-referenced in the page descriptions and will stay that way when placed in Apple Pages.
But whether you would want Pantones in the first place is another matter.
/hh

CS3 PMS Colors Inaccurate...

i originally created some artwork in CMYK, the printer suggested i make it a 2 color job to get better color (some of my cmyk colors were out of their press' gamut).
Since i don't have a Pantone's Tints Book, i had to rely on photoshop for matching the CMYK version to pantone equivalents.
For some reason, photoshop isn't displaying PMS colors as accurate as Illustrator.
In photoshop, the Spot Channel version matches pretty close to the CMYK version, but once it is placed in illustrator it's obvious that it doesn't match the CMYK version at all. Which is weird because when i place CMYK photoshop files into illustrator they match perfectly.
I am using the same color settings across CS3 (set in bridge).
Sample of Files:
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/5010/duotonezp1.jpg
Sample of Random PMS colors:
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/4328/spotcomparesb2.jpg

Silence,
Some notes, which I hope are helpful here...
>(some of my cmyk colors were out of their press' gamut)
If the are CMYK, they are, by their very definition, within press gamuts. If your colors are out of gamut, they've been defined in some other color space, such as RGB, which has a considerably larger gamut.
> i don't have a Pantone's Tints Book
You need to purchase a current Pantone spot color to process swatch book. If you are doing work for print reproduction, it is as important as a calibrated monitor. If nothing else, it will quickly show you which colors will and which colors will not be accurately translated to standard four-color process colors.
>For some reason, photoshop isn't displaying PMS colors as accurate as Illustrator.
You do not have your color spaces synchronized across your CS3 apps. If you are using the same-level versions (particularly CS3), this is easy to accomplish in your app's preferences. Or you are using different color spaces for your different images.
Neil

Please guide me how PMS Colors can be done in DUOTONE?

Hello,
Good Day
I have job having 7 Colors and I have been asked to done it in 5 Colors.
(1) Pantone 485CVC (RED)
(2) Pantone 356CVC (GREEN)
(3) Pantone 116CVC (YELLOW)
(4) Pantone 301CV (D-BLUE)
(5) Pantone 279C (L-BLUE)
(6) Pantone 732C (D-BROWN)
(7) Pantone 730C (L-BROWN)
I can use Red, Green and Yellow on separate screens where as remaining
“FOUR COLORS” are Dark Blue, Light Blue, Dark Brown and Light Brown.
Please guide me how I can finish the job in five colors as my boss advised
me to do it in duotone. The job is on Illustrator CS2 and Colors are PMS.
Please guide me how PMS Colors can be done in DUOTONE.
I have been working in filled of screen print for many years but unaware
about duotone in Illustrator.
I would sincerely grateful for your reply and Guidance.
With Best Regards
Ahmed Ali
[email protected]

Since this is (evidently) being prepared for screen printing, your options will be affected by answers to these questions:
Are halftone dots going to be allowed? Screen printing setups (especially in common T-shirt shops) often require solids only.
If the screen printing setup can accommodate halftoning, at what halftone ruling? When a particular screen printing setup is limited to very course (ugly) halftone ruling--commonly 30 lpi or less--one often opts for textures or grain to achieve the effect of shading.
Are the inks going to be opaque? Opaque inks are most common, but limit the possible results when overlapped. Translucent inks are only suitable for white or very light substrate colors. If the screen setup is sophisticated enough to support decent halftone ruling, and will be printed on a white substrate, then the colors you have listed could be accomplished simply building the file as ordinary four-color process, instead of with 5 colors. (None of the colors you've listed—red, green, yellow, two blues, two browns—suggest requiring a 5th spot ink.)
Illustrator does not support multi-ink swatches. You can use multiple fills and/or strokes set to overprint to replicate it in output. But Illustrator cannot properly display overprinting of opaque inks in its interface. Overprint preview always assumes the translucent inks of offset printing.
All the above is why it is common to build screen printing projects in Photoshop as multichannel documents, saved as DCS 2 EPS, or printed to Adobe PDF as separations. It's more intuitive because you have a Channel (not to be confused with Layers) for each ink, and the program is able to properly preview the printed results because you can simulate opacity, including the color of the substrate.
Working this way, it is common to create vector objects in Illustrator and then paste them into the appropriate Channel in Photoshop.
...my boss advised me to do it in duotone...
I suspect your boss doesn't know what a duotone is. Duotone (and tritone, quadtone) print multiple separations of the same grayscale channel. Duotone in Photoshop is the modern analog of the process darkroom technique of making two separation plates from the same image, using different screen angles and exposures. In Photoshop, you can do this for up to four inks, optionally applying different grayscale curves to each ink, not different channels (different artwork) to each ink. Traditionally, this was done to impart a bit of "color interest" to black-and-white photos being printed in a 2-ink job.
Your boss is saying "duotone," but he's thinking of the functionality of a multichannel file using spot inks. Even Photoshop's quadtone would not give you five inks.
JET

Figuring out the PMS colors

I have a logo that I would like to have made into a sticker by a printing company and they are offering either to print it with their 36 stock ink colors at no additional charge or with custom PMS ink matching for $30.00 per color.
1. How do you determine if the colors being used will work with the 36 colors they have available? Is there a way to do this?
2. How do I figure out what the PMS colors are for the ones in my logo?
Thanks!

1.) Most of the "sticker" print vendors will have their inhouse spot color ( like the 36 you mentioned ). But, your standard logo has only 2-3 colors ( i.e., FedEx, UPS, Xerox, IBM, etc., etc. ). If however, your logo uses more than 3 and they are process color builds, then color matching may depend on their ability to match a specific Pantone Spot color ( which they are charging $30. for a custom ink mix ). If your logo is constructed using 4c process inks, they may be better off printing your logo using 4 process colors ( C-M-Y-K ).
They should have a color chart that shows the 36 colors available for no charge. You should print your logo and try to visually match your color to their color. For instance, to simplify it, lets say your logo consists of two colors similar to a MasterCard logo of Red + Orange. Just a hypothetical. You could go to your local printer and have a hard copy proof printed and then it's just a matter of matching your Red to one of their Reds, your Orange to one of their Oranges. If you can't access their 36 colors, it will make this process much harder and/or they may not have a Red or Orange that is close to your Red and Orange. Then, they will have to use a custom mix ( $$$ ).
2.) You could find the pantone Spot color match from your local printer. Some of them have special lightboxes where they can visually match your Red + Orange to specific Pantone Spot color swatch book. You should be there to help find the color you think matches the closest. You could also contact the originator of your logo file and see if they have the colors. There is a way to find the Spot color using Photoshop if you have it available.

Determine closest PMS color from CMYK values?

In Illustrator CS3 is there a way to determine CMYK values to the closest PMS color? I know how to do it in Photoshop but cannot find a solution in Illy Forums, Illy Help, or from any intelligent person I might happen to know.
Thanks to anyone!

I use un script to know what PMS values is closet to a certain CMYK,
on the other way, what CMYK is close to certain PMS, just doble click on the PMS on the swatches palete and convert it to CMYK process..
A quick way to do it, may be there is some more technical method out there..
If you wish, here you can download the script wich is not mine, dont remember the author...sorry.
http://marizmendi.googlepages.com/index322

Suddenly unable to print in color from photoshop

Just put in new print cartridges (both b&w and color) in my HP officejet printer and I suddenly can't print color from photoshop. I'm using a mac os x 10.8.
I seem to be able to print color from other sources such as directly from the internet, or from preview. When I go to Print in photoshop if I try to select Color Matching ColorSynch and Vendor Matching are greyed out and unselectable. Not that I ever had to go there before but that seems to be the only difference between the print dialog boxes in photoshop and the other sources.

You should contact Microsoft for Mac Support and/or post in their forums.

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Your ATI driver is old, and your Intel HD chipset isn't capable.
So that means that OpenCL isn't available.
Try updating the ATI drivers from the ATI website.

Spot Color in photoshop

I have a customer that does a front and back newsletter in photoshop.
They use 100% black and 100% magenta and save it as a .psd. (They don't have no other layout programs)
How can I put it in an IndesignCS2 or quark document and separate it into 2 colors?
Your prompt response is appreciated!
Thank you, Marie

They weren't Ann. There were two images that were 4c gray. Everything else was either only on the magenta or black channel.
I converted the two 4c process images to 1 channel grayscale and sent the file back to Marie.
I haven't heard back from Marie, but I assume the job has gone to print.
alan

Colors in Photoshop all wrong but OK in other apps. (For example "Whites appear yellow.")

Q: The colors in Photoshop are all wrong. They have a neon look or are discolored with a blue, red, green or Yellow cast. I look at the same pictures in other applications and they look just fine. How do I fix this?
A: Recalibrate your monitor using Adobe Gamma (OS9) or the Displays Control in System Preferences (OSX). Photoshop uses your monitor profile to display your images other apps don't. Be sure you start the recalibration using a fresh monitor profile (sRGB or the profile that came with your monitor for example). If you try to recalibrate using the old corrupt profile you will still have a corrupt monitor profile and your color will still be bad. Also, if you are using OS 9 make sure you are using ColorSync 3.0.4. The 3.0.4 patch is available on the Apple web site.
See also support document 319456, "Colors Are Incorrect (For example White Appears Yellow)" at http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/319456.html. The document is for Windows, but it may be useful for Macintosh.
Here is another link to monitor calibration http://www.gballard.net/psd/colorlooksbad.html

Thanks. But it looks like in all my frustration, I wasn't sure my original call for help had posted, so must have submitted the same question again.
But I just had a new thought on the problem. While reviewing a story I received from another website, I noticed that the photos attached to the article looked a lot like what I described in my message. It made me wonder if I have a software problem at all . . . or if it's the screen on my Mac that needs recalibration!
It only took 2 minutes to find a website that discussed it — with sample screens to help determine if that was what I'm dealing with. Since a screen supposedly showing a mix of numbered, grey boxes looked totally white to me and I could only see the white numbers on a screen that supposedly contained boxes in varying shades of black, I think I might be on the right track. Just not sure, since I had to reach the bottom of the page before spotting the pitch for a product that supposedly will recalibrate for me. I'm not sure I want to tackle recalibration on my own, but may call the Mac Geniuses at our local mall and see if my hunch is right . . .and if so, what they would charge to do it for me.
BTW, if it sounds like a calibration problem, do you think moving my computer from one desk top another (just 5 feet away) could have caused it? I'm not sure, since it wasn't on my mind at the time, but I think that's roughly when I first started to notice discrepancies in color.

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