#ColorDTP?
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First, the situation. We have several brochure designs that use a 256 grey
scale photo as a background. As such, it has been processed through ADPro to be
very, very light. Furthermore, it is to be printed in a color other than black.
To this end, is has been colorized in TVpaint. Unfortunately, TVpaint cannot
save out 8-bits… only 24/32 bits. So first, I must convert the pic back to
8-bits. BUT, will the color be preserved? Can I end up with, for example, a
"256 BLUE scale"? And can this blue-halftone be output onto the appropriate
color neg when color separated from a DTP package, e.i. propage or pagestream?
Up to now, we have done this trick by using the lightened 256 grey scale
properly positioned by itself on its own black neg, and relabling this neg as
the appropriate color to be printed. I'm afraid my twenty-five+ years
experience in putting mechanicals together may be making me a bit brain dead
when it comes to DTP. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance. Frank Dlugoleski
frank,
The only way I know to get a `256 BLUE SCALE' is to save the image as a
24bit IFF. There may be another way but that is the easiest way, unless
you don't have the memory to use 24bit files.
Matt Straney, 3 hours late, without your luggage
from Grand Ledge — on AutoPilot ——–>
It sounds like you don't need to "colorize" the 256-grey image. The printer can
output it to film as B/W, then print with a colored ink. Am I missing
something? You're not doing full 4-color printing, right, you're just doing
spot color? You may not need to try to integrate it into the layout with
everything else.