A new one on me...

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OK, so I got a CMYK mode .psd file with a spot color and black. The customer made the black channel a spot channel named "black". Didn't really think about that too much (as far as putting the spot "black" into the CMYK black channel). But I did change it to a multichannel (since I couldn't place the psd file into Indesign because of the spot), and saved it as a DCS2 file. This is what I was supplied....

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After saving, I reopened it (needed to trap it) and this is what I saw....(strangely enough, it ripped fine)

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However, I opened the original again, did NOT change the mode to multichannel, just saved it as a DCS2 and everything was fine....

I should note that PS put the spot K channel into the K channel on it's own, I had to eliminate the CMY channels and reverse the order of the spot and K manually.

[DCurry]

Why did you need to use DCS2? You should be able to place a PSD with spot channels into ID no problem - I do it all the time. Perhaps a RIP consideration? I know my RIP won't handle spot PSDs if I feed it postscript. If I feed it PDF, it works.

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this is why...

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Sooooooo.....apparently this is a new one on everybody??? I feel like I've won STUMP THE STARS!!!   :laugh:

[Joe]

I can't make out the channels in your screen shots so I'm not entirely clear what you mean? The first one looks to be CMYK + 2 spots. The 2nd  I don't know and the 3rd appears to be just two spots? Can you put up better screen shots that we can see?

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I can try, but the size restriction was working against me...I tried saving as jpeg but I had to lower the image size along with the quality...but you are correct, the first is a PMS color and the Black as a spot color. The second was Photoshop putting the spot K into the K channel. Let me try to work on getting better images....

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Is there any other way to reduce the size of my images? As soon as I open them in PS, they grow by leaps and bounds. If I don't open them, they're alot smaller but still not small enough to post....HELP?   :shocked:

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OK, here's the first one....

[Ear]

Very strange. InDesign lets me place duotone, saved as PSD with no problems.  What happens if you ignore the warning, place the Duo PSD, export and RIP? Live on the edge, that's what I say.  :wink: Of course, I didn't walk for the last 2 months because of that philosophy. :rolleyes:

[beermonster]

see - for SPOT read pantone -         there's no "black" - sure there's PANTONE black whatever..but it aint named right

it doesnt like a SPOT black as it cant map it from  a lut

now if you recolored the spot "black" chanel to summat named in the pantone book it wiill place just fine

then again i've had a few beers so waddo i know

[Joe]

Is there any other way to reduce the size of my images? As soon as I open them in PS, they grow by leaps and bounds. If I don't open them, they're alot smaller but still not small enough to post....HELP?   :shocked:

As it looks like you've discovered, PNG files seem to work good.

I made up a new file exactly as your channels show and I get the same error in InDesign. I think InDesign does not like having two channels named "Black" or it does not like having a spot channel named "Black". When I renamed the spot channel named "Black" to "Pantone Black C", InDesign imports it without any issues.

Edit: Beermonster just beat me to the punch! :laugh:

[Chilbear]

How about saving the PSD as a PDF and you should see the 6 colours in the output preview window in Acrobat. Can you not map the Pantone to process and the 6th colour "black" to K from CMYK?

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OK, sorry about the interruption, had some work to do (dammit) but this is the part I wanted to show you...note the image (this is when I made it multichannel and saved as a DCS)...very unusual, just wondering if anybody has seen anything like this b4....pardon the pun   :laugh: