From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish

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Creating a spot varnish

Creating a spot varnish

From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish

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Creating a spot varnish

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This is, part of a project that we're doing for the Roux Academy of Art, Media and Design, and we want to make it, just a little bit higher quality. So, what I want to do is, I want to create a spot varnish that's just going to cover, the photographer here. Now I could do that, in Photoshop, but I'm going to show you kind of a neat way to do this within InDesign. And the success of it depends on me having a path in that Photoshop file, that I can invoke in order to serve as a home for my spot varnish. First, I'm going to make the swatch for the spot varnish. So I'm just going to choose New Color Swatch. Now, this is going to be a spot color, because it's going to represent that varnish. Now, it's Color Mode frankly wouldn't matter, but I tend to want to make the varnish representation kind of loud, so I can recognized it in the pack. So, I'm just going to make it a nice bright green. Again the color doesn't really matter, the name does. So, I'm going to name this varnish, and I need…

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