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January 30, 2022
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Spot colour on Psd in mock up image and print in Indesign. HELP PLEASE !!!

  • January 30, 2022
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Hello everyone ,

 

hope I made this clear for you 🙂

 

I overlayied assests on psd and they need to be spot colours so I created spot channel. Export as Pdf and linked to Indesign. When I look at the print overview i can see spot colour on embeded image. so I export as print file from indesign and looked at Pdf Print outview and i can see spot colours too. 

 

My problem is both indesign and Pdf output preview, I can see spot colour on embeded image but also I can see CMYK too.

I wanna only see spot colour. First image you can see total area covarage %154 and second one is % 100( which is correct one). How can I make it only %100 , only spot colour for psd mock up?

 

 

 

 

Is there way to make that? Hope this is clear. Please help me, I have been trying for 2 weeks :((((((

 

 

Thank you 

 

 

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jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2022

@YASEMIN5F8B 

 

Your image shows all channels checked.

 

Uncheck all except one, then work your way through and show only one channel at a time. Do the cyan, magenta, yellow, and black plates show in the object you assign to a spot color? When you uncheck the spot color, does the image disappear? 

 

As was said, though, skip the PDF and just place the PSD into InDesign.

 

Jane

Stephen Marsh
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2022

Vector based apps such as InDesign and Illustrator automatically "knock out" content, the object has to be set to overprint in order for underlying elements to be considered in the composite of overlapping objects.

 

Photoshop spot channels are different, opposite – all spot colour and other channel content is combined/overprinting by default. One has to manually make a "knockout" under the spot channel area using white so that other channel data is not included in the composite. This could be performed non-destructively using layers, or one could destructively remove the image content from the other channels. Generally a selection from the spot colour channel would be used to create the knockout and one may or may not decide to manually create some "trap" (this would depend on downstream workflow).

Participant
February 6, 2022

yes i think this is right. I had a look at Knock out style. Do you know any video explains better spots colour on psd with knockout ?

 

Thank you

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 30, 2022

I have no idea what your problem is, but if you want to get a Photoshop file into InDesign, link the Photoshop file.

In an image file, all channels get mixed. So, you should see anything shining through. If it gets printed, colours will get printed one above the other. If you do not want that, you need to "delete" the colour at a certain place.

 

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer