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Stay Ahead With Agfa Graphics. Creative with White ink

Preparing an image 7

D. Preparing an image:

We will show you how-to, by going step-by-step through the next photoshop example….

We want to create some colored and white text onto a black KapaColor plate,

the printed end result should look like this:

We start by making the following ﬁ le in Photoshop:

The text color which represents the white ink/text is 

not important in this stage, as you can see in the preview

above.

The next step is to deﬁ ne which parts should be printed in white,

and create a spot channel for it.

We also want to have white under the colored text, so we have to select

everything out of the white background. The image must be ﬂ attened ﬁ rst.

To do this, there are several ways in Photoshop. You can use the “Pen

tool”, to make a path around objects, and make a selection out of it….

The “Magic Wand Tool” can also be used…

But in this case, we will work with the “Color Range” tool.