Nivrams Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) Is it possible to specify a grayscale image (tiff, jpg, affinity photo) to print in a spot color. I know that duotones or tri-tones are not available, but it would be desireable to be able to specify and display a halftone in a match color. Adobe does it all, of course, but Quark Xpress, while not supporting duotones, allows graycale images to be specified as a spot color and be overprinted or not. I have not seen a reference to this capability one way or another in Affinity applications. I am not referring to duotones. Just assigning a spot color to a photo file. In any of the Affinity applications. Edited December 31, 2019 by Nivrams Spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted December 31, 2019 Share Posted December 31, 2019 2 hours ago, Nivrams said: Is it possible to specify a grayscale image (tiff, jpg, affinity photo) to print in a spot color. I know that duotones or tri-tones are not available, but it would be desireable to be able to specify and display a halftone in a match color. ... Have you tried? Yes, APub can import a grayscale image and have a spot color applied to it and output to pdf. However, without true duotone support, one cannot adjust the ink curves so your results will vary between unacceptable to OK. 2 hours ago, Nivrams said: ... but Quark Xpress, while not supporting duotones, ... Of course Q does allow/use duotone images. That said, I would just use a duotone psd. Here's a duotone eps format in Q... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacerto Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 (...) Fixx 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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