White Ink Spot Channel

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December 20, 2024
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Hi all,

See attachment to this post. Received photoshop file from the customer with a white ink layer to be printed on silver wrap vinyl. (I've added a red color overlay for visual of this post only to show how where the white ink is). So far, the only way I've been able to get the white ink to recognize on my spot channel is to use the wand or quick selection tool. My issue with that is that creates hard edges instead of the white having the fade like the customer is requesting. How can I get this white ink layer to translate to my spot channel without altering it?

RIP software is ONYX, printed with Epson 80600.

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BrettN

Community Manager

To get a better selection of the contents of a layer, hold the Cmd/Ctrl key and click on the thumbnail in the Layers panel. This will select all the visible pixels in the layer, including selecting semi-transparent pixels at their current level of opacity.

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Aaron27573756bce9Author

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So this works on most files but on the horse it isn't selecting any pixels. I can select them with the wand but not with the Cmd + click.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

I'm not sure if the following is what you are looking for? I loaded a selection of the tones (as per @BrettN) and inverted the selection, then I duped the green channel and inverted it through the inverted selection and made it a spot channel for the white. Further edits may be required.

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