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Creating Spot Color Separations
Table 1-3 (continued)
Option What It Does Recommendation
Corner Crop
Marks
Adds crop marks at the corners of
the image to indicate where to trim
the image.
Select this option.
Center Crop
Marks
Adds crop marks at the center of
each side of the image to indicate
where to trim the image.
Select this option.
Description
Prints the description as entered in
the File➪File Info area.
Select if you have
entered a description.
Labels
Prints the filename and channel
name on each plate or page.
Select this option.
Emulsion
Down
Emulsion is the side of the film that’s
light sensitive. Allows the film to
be printed with the emulsion side
down.
Leave this option dese-
lected for laser separa-
tions. When the service
bureau or offset printer
prints the separations
to film or plates, it may
select this option.
Negative
Prints black as white and white as
black, and every other color inverts
accordingly.
Leave this option dese-
lected for laser separa-
tions. When the service
bureau or offset printer
prints the separations
to film or plates, it may
select this option.
Interpolation
Anti-aliases low-resolution images
by resampling.
Available only for
PostScript Level 2 or
laser printers. Leave it
deselected.
Include
Vector Data
See the “Saving and Printing Vector
Data in a Raster File” section, in this
chapter.
Leave this option
selected if you have type
or vector paths.
Creating Spot Color Separations
Photoshop allows you to add separate channels for spot colors (see Book VI,
Chapter 1, for more on channels), which can then be color-separated. Spot,
or custom, colors are premixed inks manufactured by various ink companies,
the most popular in the U.S. being Pantone. A spot color is often used for a
logo, type, or small illustration. Spot colors are also used when you need to
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