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Modifying channel color and solidity
You can use the Advanced Image Control palette to change the color, shade, and ink
solidity of any spot color, mask, or alpha channel you created in Photoshop. You can
assign spot colors to channels that overprint composite images, and you can specify solidity
for displaying channels on-screen and printing color composites.
Channels specified as mask channels in Photoshop are imported differently than channels
specified as spot colors. In Photoshop, mask channels are assigned an opacity setting, while
spot channels are assigned a solidity setting. Since PSD Import supports ink solidity, mask
channels are imported with a 0% ink solidity. To see mask channels in imported PSDs,
you need to manually turn on the mask channels in the Channels tab of the Advanced
Image Control palette. Spot-color channels, on the other hand, retain the solidity setting
saved in the PSD file and are mapped to QuarkXPress colors by default.
Use the Channel Options dialog box to modify the color, shade, or ink solidity of pixels
in a spot-color or alpha channel. To display the Channel Options dialog box, simply
double-click a channel in the Channels pane of the Advanced Image Control palette
(Window menu).
Working with indexed color channels
By default, when you print color separations from QuarkXPress using PSD Import, the
colors in indexed color images separate to CMYK. You can override this by creating a spot
color or multi-ink color (Edit > Colors) and assigning that color to the selected indexed
colors in the image. Advanced Image Control also allows you to create spot colors from
colors in the indexed color image. Indexed colors that you do not modify will still separate
to CMYK.
Working with PSD paths
You can also use PSD Import to choose among embedded paths for specifying clipping
and runaround. The Paths pane in the Advanced Image Control palette provides
convenient access to the clipping-path and text-runaround functions in QuarkXPress
Using the Paths pane, you can select different clipping paths to use for text runaround
contours. To select a text runaround contour, click the empty box in the first column. The
Text Runaround icon displays and the text wraps around the contours of the clipping
path.
For text runaround to occur, the picture box needs to be in front of the text. If the text is
not wrapping, select the picture box and choose Item > Bring Forward or Item > Bring
to Front.
You also can use the Paths pane to control the display of an image by selecting a clipping
path you created in Photoshop. To select a clipping path, click in the empty box in the
second column. The Clipping Path icon displays and the area of the picture within the
selected clipping path displays.
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