Digital Print Sessions

I thought i knew a fair bit about the whole digital printing process - turns out, i don't know shit! So in these sessions  I've picked up a whole bunch of useful tips and shortcuts that are going to save me a load of time, compared to the ways i might've gone about colour separation etc. Example: Select> Similar.! After all the years I've been using photoshop, how have i only just discovered this?!

• SPOT COLOUR POSITIVES & CHANNELS IN PHOTOSHOP •

Magic Wand 

Select >

Select > Similar

Colour Range> Fuzziness toggle used to increase/decrease 

the amount of pixels that are being selected >Selection Preview > White Matte

New spot channel > select a new colour

Repeat for as many colours as you intend to use.

Channels > split channels > print off your spot colour layers.

SAVE BEFORE YOU SPLIT! as you can't undo this.

Save as psd or tiff

Take it into Illustrator, Place > Window > Separation preview > Overprint preview (which is preview before print) > Print  > Output separations (hot based). Un-tick CMYK boxes, then print.