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How does one go about creating duo-tone images in the Affinity Suite apps such that the two spot colors used will separate correctly onto the spot color printing plates?

I can't find a way to do this, and though i can simulate a duo-tone effect with adjustment layers and effects, the final result always separates out as CMYK.

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On 6/24/2019 at 3:59 PM, MikeW said:

There isn't duotone support. 

I brought this up quite emphatically early on, and am a bit surprised it hasn't been implemented yet. Will it ever be? I was hoping this could replace PS for prepress work, but I'm forced to hang on to Adobe. I would get the new publishing program as well, but not until I can create proper ink channels.

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@silvergelatin

Yeah. I hold out hope that this will get sorted out before the next official release, but Serif have not published a roadmap of features to be built and so it's uncertain.

It would also be nice if they would build in a pre-press studio panel that could preview color plate separations so that we wouldn't have to pay for Acrobat Pro to run prepress checks.

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2 hours ago, Mark Oehlschlager said:

@silvergelatin

It would also be nice if they would build in a pre-press studio panel that could preview color plate separations …

Makeshift alternative: studio panel >> Photo >> channels (extremely helpful)

Thanks to DeepL.

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@Palatino

Are you able to create spot color channels in Photo? Perhaps there's a way, but I can't find a way. Any art I create in Designer or Publisher involving spot colors always get interpreted as either RGB channel separation or CMYK channel separation when opened in Photo. 

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Count me in.
Around 70 % of my print production is done via duo tone printing with black and spot colours. Until A. Publisher won’t be able to handle duo tone I am stuck with InDesign.

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