Jeff Cochran
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Try this. Take the image that you want to paste in all the hundreds of documents you have. open it and copy it your clip board. Close and write your script, but write it with only the paste command in the script.
Now run your script and see what you get. As long as the image you want is copied to the clip board, you should be fine.
Jeff Cochran
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Hang in there. duotones can be difficult, but the results can be extremely rewarding
Jeff Cochran
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/
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One issue that may help you is to talk to your printers about dot gain. Dot gain will vary from press to press, will be dependant on different papers, metal plate or paper plate. Many factors.
See if your printer is setting the dot gain for you, or have them give you a range to set it yourself.
Jeff Cochran
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To print a mock up for your client, create a copy of your duotone file and convert it to cmyk. You’ll get a nice print from that. The color printers I’ve worked with could never process the duotone eps file very well.
Be sure to use your duotone file for the printer though.
Unfortunately, this is the only way I know to proof your colors
Jeff Cochran
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Try using a compound path mask.
Create the big circle, then create the smaller circle, make sure the smaller circle is on top of the big circle. Go to the object pull down> Compound path>make.
Place over the object you want to mask, select both the mask and the object (Make sure the mask is on top)Go to the objects pull down>mask>make
That should give you what you want
Jeff Cochran
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Create the shape you want. Place it on a layer above the image you want to mask and position it where you want it. Make a selection out of the layer. Apple click (mac) or control click (PC) the layer Icon. Go to the channels pallette and create a new channel. the channel will be all black, with white selected as the background color, hit the delete key. Now when you save this as a tiff file, be sure to save with alpha, this will give you a mask when you import into the project. be sure to hide the mask layer.
If you want to see what this will look like in PSD, Make a selection from the mask layer, select the layer of the image and click on the layer button at the bottom of the layer pallette.
Jeff Cochran
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You could try creating a displacement map from the objects you want to reflect. Been a long time since I’ve created a Displacement map. I believe you a create a B&W image and keep it the same size as the original, save as a pict
Displacement maps can be applied under filters>distort>displace
Jeff Cochran
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No I don’t
I have always created my image and then adjusted for dot gain afterwords using the technique described earlier
Jeff Cochran
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Can you post an example.
Here’s one thing you might try. Convert your image to greyscale, then convert to bitmap (Image> Mode> Bitmap)Under method, use a halftone screen. You may have to play with the contrast of the image before you convert. Also, use a very small line screen, like 24
Jeff Cochran
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The way I’ve dealt with this in the past is to create the art by replacing a pantone with 100% of a process color. For instance, Pantone 280 would be 100% cyan. Pantone 185 would be 100% magenta. I would build the quark doc the same way.
Then, make sure to give your printer very specific instructions about which color is being imaged and which color is being printed.
This is only ideal depending on the artwork your seperating, but I’ve create some very cool duotones this way.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about
https://www.jeffcochrandigitalartist.com/crrennasaince.htmlGood luck
Jeff Cochran
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