From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish
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Creating a spot varnish
From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish
Creating a spot varnish
Here's an image that I want to do a couple of special things to. First of all, I want to silhouette him, so that I get rid of this background. And then I want to add a spot varnish to him. So, an overall coating, would cover the whole printed sheet, but a spot varnish is going to be applied just where I specify. So, it's kind of a neat way to sort of, accentuate him so that he's separated out from the background. Not just by being silhouetted, but he'll have a little shine to him too. First of all, of course I need to sillouette him, I just happen to have a mask channel, so I'm going to load that mask channel. And my favorite way is to just drag it down to the little make a selection icon, now I have matching ants. I'm going to go back to my Layers panel, and remember I have to turn him into a floating layer, so that I can apply that mask. When I double-click, click OK, now he's a floating layer. And since I already have my marching ants, all I have to do is come down here and click…
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