From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish
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Creating a touch plate to enhance a color image
From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish
Creating a touch plate to enhance a color image
This artwork is going to be used in a fashion ad, and the shirt that it's representing, looks magenta onscreen, but in reality it's going to be a fluorescent pink. An we're going to use a fluorescent pink when we print this, so that it's more representative of the real article. But we want to have some definition to it, we want to have a little shape, a little shading, so we don't want just a flat shape, shaped like, the shirt. So we're going to create what's called a touch plate, or bump plate, or kiss plate it's different terms for the same thing. And you'll see it used in fine art prints, often to accomplish a color that we can't get within the range of CMYK. It's a subtle change, but it's just enough to make a more realistic print. So, I already have some masks made, that are going to come in handy, I have one for the little squiggles on the pants. One to isolate the shirt, and then one for the shirt and pants together just in case I need that. And then let's look at what we have…
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