Yes, You Can Use Spot Colors in Photoshop
Your First Second and Third Spot Colors
- Select the eyes path (again: Ctrl+click on the path).
- Repeat steps 3 through 7 from the previous page to create a new spot channel for your second spot color. I chose Pantone 340 C.
New Spot Channel for eyes
You will see the results of your trapping where the shapes overlap. This is desirable, and it will be covered with black outlines anyway.
- Repeat for the nose. I chose Pantone 182 C.
Repeat for the nose shape
Black, the Key Color
All of our black will be included in one channel because there will be a single black plate for printing. We need to add the black fill of our pupil paths to a black stroke around the outline paths.
- Select the pupils path (again: Ctrl+click on the path).
- Repeat steps 3 through 7 from the previous page to create a new spot channel for black. I chose Pantone Black 2 C.
Create the black spot channel
- Keep your new black channel selected in the Channels panel.
- In the Paths panel, click on the outlines path (not Ctrl+click this time.)
Click on the outlines panel
We need to set up a brush in order to create a stroke around our outline paths.
- Press B to get the Brush tool.
- Open the Brushes panel (Window > Brushes).
- Select the 13px hard brush in the top row of brushes on the right.
Select the 13px hard brush
- Back in the Paths panel, click on the Stroke path with brush icon.
Stroke path with brush
- Click on the cat shape path. Click on the Stroke path with brush icon again.
Stroke the cat outline
- Repeat for the eyes and nose.
Repeat for eyes and nose
- Deselect the current path.
- Save your file.
Final Spot Channels
Next: Make It Ready for Press
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I’d love to hear from you!
By Sara Smith, 09/01/2011 @ 7:58 am
I would just like to thank you so much for the tutorial. I have been struggling with a new project for a couple of weeks, asking for help from many of my friends, doing research…endless reasearch!….until I finally found you. Your explanation was just perfect. I cannot thank you enough:) Sara.