Spot color channel in Affinity Photo

[Vadim_77]

Good day, dear colleagues.

We are sign making company which used UV roll to roll and flatbed printers different brands. And I need to prepare files for printing. Most of our UV printers use Sai Flexi and ONYX software. And now we use Adobe Photoshop for preparing the files for printing in case raster images and Adobe Illustrator for vector files. Also use Corel Draw but in case of Adobe usage it is more easy to explain what we need. We want to change all our design software to Affinity products but still can't find  very important ability: 

1/ We need to make a separate spot color channel  for raster images. Like we made it in Photoshop by the manual: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/printing-spot-colors.html  In case vector  images we find a way to make global spot color what we need but we need to make same thing with raster image. Please find a file, which we are preparing in CorelDraw and which correctly works with our RIP software (ONYX) and our printer, by the link: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Aoz0qb9Mh59rh4NO-qoRp-Uax2LmJA?e=QvRnRb.

Please give me a way to make same thing in Affinity Photo or inform about plans to add this ability in the future or about impossible to get this option.

[Dazmondo77]

It's do-able and not super straightforward but since 1.9 is loads easier - see screen capture vid - 

 

[Yugie]

We're looking into doing the same thing but unfortunately the video mentioned above is no longer available. Would anybody be able to direct me to another source on how to  do this?

[Dan C]

Hi @Yugie,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

I'm still able to download the above screen recording, and have re-attached it to my post for you in a different format - are you able to download/view this re-upload correctly?

 

I hope this helps!

[Yugie]

Weird, but in any case the video you posted works! Thanks a bunch.