Is there are way to set a spot colour to a stroke shape path in Photoshop? Is the only way to do this to create a spot colour channel and render the layer as a rasterized layer? I'm hoping to have a dyeline in Photoshop that has it's own layer and it's own named spot colour. Perhaps Photoshop isn't the program for this? I know you can import the .psd into illustrator and create the spot dyeline there. Is that the solution? TIA.
No, Photoshop isn't the traditional place for this, it doesn't have the native ability to set spot colour to vector elements. As you note, spot colours in Photoshop are either channel based (Spot Channels) or document mode based (Duotone mode).
If this is for wide-format printing/cutting where you need a "CutContour" path, there is a third-party option for saving this directly from Photoshop – Lightning CutLines if you wish to search it up.
If this is for more traditional work requiring die/forme cutting, then Illustrator and InDesign are the standard places to do this.
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