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
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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Importing art containing spot color content and resolving issues with Ink Manager4m 28s
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Using Overprint Preview to proof the display of spot color transparency2m 30s
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Converting spot colors to process2m 29s
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Creating a spot varnish5m 35s
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Creating and using mixed inks2m 42s
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