Using Pantones instead of cmyk

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January 11, 2018
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I am working on an old PS file supplied by a customer. They need the colors to be pantones not CMYK. When I select the area I need to change and fill it with a pantone from the color book the resulting color is still a cmyk build. I have double checked by exporting it as a pdf and then looking at it with the out put preview option and the color is still a cmyk build and not a pantone. How do I fill a selection with a pantone color and have it stay a pantone and not a cmyk build. I am using Photoshop CC 2018 on a Mac.

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Norman Sanders

Legend

JM, The fact that it is a Photoshop file makes me think there are four-color images in the layout also, and the PMS colors are part of a 6 or 8 color press job. So, if you are planning to print PMS colors as PMS, rather then their CMYK equivalent, perhaps this will help:

Print with spot colors from Photoshop

It provides the additional channels (and plates) for those other colors which are sometimes referred to as "touch plates", "match colors" or "kickers."

gener7

Community Expert

You would want to do this in Illustrator. Pantone Colors are actually premixed inks, not process or CMYK inks. Each color you choose requires a separate printing plate. In such a document that means each Pantone color is a Spot Color channel.

Illustrator or InDesign would natively support spot color channels, so you really must ask in either forum. Photoshop does support spot color channels <corrected>, although the Print Professionals here can give better advice that I can.

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Katie Houghton

Inspiring

Spot colors are built in channels in Photoshop You work in the channel and not the composite. You also need to use DCS 2.0 format to export images containing spot channels. It is easier to deal with spot colors in Illustrator or InDesign.

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