Designer Pantone colorize a picture

[Thomahawk]

Hi. Can I set a bitmap or greyscale picture to Pantone spot color in Designer, like I am used to from FreeHand?

How else can I achieve to get an image in Pantone color?

Thanks for your input,

Thom

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[Thomahawk]

Hi Lagarto

This is indeed good news. Thank you Lagarto.

Strange is, its exactly as I am used to, only that I did copy paste the image from afPhoto and that did not work. I now exported a grayscale TIFF from afPhoto, placed it in Designer and then it worked like you described, setting the Pantone color for it.

Unfortunately this shows once again how far behind the affinity apps are in regards of easy of use. There are by far too many quirks with these apps, so that many things do not work by intuition, too many things have to be set right until it works. One further example is here, when I copied the colored image and cut a bit from one side, it lost the color setting and got treated in CMYK, which was only detectable later in Adobe Acrobat, checking color separation.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Thomahawk said:

Strange is, its exactly as I am used to, only that I did copy paste the image from afPhoto and that did not work. I now exported a grayscale TIFF from afPhoto, placed it in Designer and then it worked like you described, setting the Pantone color for it.

Possibly the copy/paste gave you a (Pixel) layer. Placing gives you a (Image) layer whose Fill can be adjusted, accomplishing what you wanted.

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