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**El Salsero Gringo** · 26th-October-2005, 08:07 PM

My turn to cast the yarrow stones and humbly beseech the wise men of this community for help:

I have a jpeg file that's a corporate logo. It involves two colours, let's say yellow and black.

I need to include the logo in a file that's being printed with two inks, black and a spot yellow.

How can I covert the (RGB) jpeg file into Adobe Illustrator and specifiy the pantone reference for the second colour so that when it's later set in (say) XPress it doesn't trigger a full CMYK separation for the file?

If it's any help I can convert it to "indexed colour" mode in Photoshop, and specifiy a custom colour in the colour table, selecting the correct pantone reference. But no way can I find to export that so that bringing it into Illustrator keeps it as a spot colour.

The autotrace feature in Illustrator (or 'convert selection to path' option in Photoshop) isn't faithful enough to the original logo to be any use. Nor do I have the skill to manually trace around the logo with the pen tool.

Can anyone help?

26th-October-2005, 08:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
El Salsero Gringo Ceroc Teacher Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: London Posts: 4,881 Status: No Status Rep Power: 4 Rep.: 2374	Photoshop/Illustrator help: please! My turn to cast the yarrow stones and humbly beseech the wise men of this community for help: I have a jpeg file that's a corporate logo. It involves two colours, let's say yellow and black. I need to include the logo in a file that's being printed with two inks, black and a spot yellow. How can I covert the (RGB) jpeg file into Adobe Illustrator and specifiy the pantone reference for the second colour so that when it's later set in (say) XPress it doesn't trigger a full CMYK separation for the file? If it's any help I can convert it to "indexed colour" mode in Photoshop, and specifiy a custom colour in the colour table, selecting the correct pantone reference. But no way can I find to export that so that bringing it into Illustrator keeps it as a spot colour. The autotrace feature in Illustrator (or 'convert selection to path' option in Photoshop) isn't faithful enough to the original logo to be any use. Nor do I have the skill to manually trace around the logo with the pen tool. Can anyone help?