Mark Oehlschlager Posted June 24, 2019 Posted June 24, 2019 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. Quote
Mark Oehlschlager Posted June 24, 2019 Author Posted June 24, 2019 @MikeW Okay. Thanks. Clearly a missing feature then. Hopefully this is on the near-term roadmap. Quote
silvergelatin Posted August 3, 2019 Posted August 3, 2019 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. Mark Oehlschlager 1 Quote
Mark Oehlschlager Posted August 3, 2019 Author Posted August 3, 2019 @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. Michail 1 Quote
Palatino Posted August 3, 2019 Posted August 3, 2019 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) Quote Thanks to DeepL.
Mark Oehlschlager Posted August 3, 2019 Author Posted August 3, 2019 @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. Quote
Palatino Posted August 3, 2019 Posted August 3, 2019 4 hours ago, Mark Oehlschlager said: @Palatino Are you able to create spot color channels in Photo? No. I am satisfied if I can control cmyk. Quote Thanks to DeepL.
nemski Posted January 29, 2020 Posted January 29, 2020 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. Quote
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