4 colour process separations 2

[flyzzzz]

Hi
I am looking for photoshop compatable software to to help me make four colour process separations for licensed characters with a multiplicity of pantone colours to match, any and all help appreciated

 

[jimoblak]

What do you mean by Photoshop compatible? Do you mean you have Photoshop and you want software that works with it... or do you mean you do not have Photoshop but want something that behaves like Photoshop?

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[flyzzzz]

As far as the picklefish goes I don't have the answer!
But' as far as your response goes, thanks Jim and I appologise for not being clear. I have photoshop cs

 

[MarcusStringer]

What????
do you mean something to put the Photoshop image into, to seperate out the image to Film or Plate????
Like Quark or InDesign or Illustrator or Pagemaker or Framemaker or Corel etc etc

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[flyzzzz]

And g'day to you Marcus
This really is a great forum, It will probably be hard to believe! Only this is my first time on any forum !!!!
You folks are DYNAMITE.
Art will be in photoshop or Illustrator, need to know software that will best separate colours to correct tonal dot % in i.e. pantone colour or other colour group that has pre-defind colour swatches
GAry

 

[jimoblak]

Both Illustrator and Photoshop can manage separations. In Illustrator, your inks can appear in the swatches palette. In Photoshop, your inks appear in the channels palette.

- - picklefish - -
Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[ggregor]

May I suggest a long journey of reading and experimenting with any application that produces Postscript output.

Photoshop produces primarily raster files at some "fixed" resolution. Illustrator produces vector files that are resolution independent. They play well together along with many other applications by agreed upon standard file formats that have evolved over decades.

It is possible to exchange these files across platforms and applications without much pain these days as long as you understand the concepts.

Good luck on your journey.

 

[Zelandakh]

fly,
use photoshop cs and save the files as DCS 2.0 which will make separate "plates" or each colour plus a thumbnail of the composite file.

 

[kevininquincy]

Just a side note regarding Zelandakh's post, be careful saving files as DCS 2.0 IF you are going to ever save the finished product as a PDF file. DCS 2 files don't translate properly, so would advise saving photos as .eps files.

KevinInQuincy