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Hi, and welcome to another PhotoShop tutorial.
Today, we will be covering spot color channels, in Adobe PhotoShop CS 6.
This applies to other versions of PhotoShop as well.
If you don't already know, spot color channels are used to create reliefs
or embossing, in images during the print production,
as well as adding gold or silver, or additional colors, to your image.
CMYK is a standard four-color process, using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black.
But sometimes, you want to use other colors, like maybe a metallic ink,
or get a gold or a silver; true gold, or true silver, that is.
So, that's what we can use the spot color channels for,
and, as you might have guessed, they reside in the Channels Palette.
So, let's get started. Here we have the King of Spades.
If you go back to the Layers Palette,
and Select the area we want to make gold or silver,
in this case, we'll be making it gold.
Now, you can use the magic wand, of course, or you can use this method,
here, by Selecting based on color range.
This can be a little more accurate, sometimes,
and save you a little bit of the hassle of selecting some of the smaller areas.
Then, I'm going to use the lasso tool,
and just de-select this centralized area here,
because all I want is the crowns in this case.
Go to your Channels palette, create New Spot Channel,
and then, you can Select the color that you want.
Now, we've created an Overlay in the Channels Palette here,
you can see that, if you turn off the other Channels.
It shows up as Black, but, if you double-click on the Spot Channel there,
you can then adjust the color that's associated with it.
Another way to make your selection, is to Copy, into a Layer, what you want.
Select the area you want with the Magic wand,
or you can Paint in a new area,
then press Command J or Control J, on a PC, to copy it into anywhere.
If we do that, and we Select All, Command C, or Control C, to Copy;
and then we can Paste it into the Spot Color Channel,
it works a lot like a Layer Mask.
Now, in this case, it's gone the opposite way of what I was hoping for,
so I can press Command I or Control I on the keyboard to Inverse this layer.
And then that gives me the proper selection I'm looking for.
Another option is to use the Quick Mask.
Q on your keyboard, and you can Paint the area you want to Select.
This is a Selection, and then you can again create a new Spot Channel.
Now, a very important part of this process, not to be overlooked,
is when you are saving your image.
It's important to Save your image as a PhotoShop DCS 2.0 Document.
In this way, you create a new document, using all of your Channel Layers.
Some Document formats do not preserve all of
the Channel Layers, only Image Layers.
It's important to know that the DCS format
will definitely save the Channel Layers for you.
Some TIFF formats do as well.
And you will see, here, in the DCS format,
that TIFF is a compression method, that can be used.
Thanks for joining us for another PhotoShop tutorial,
this tutorial is brought to you by Innamorata Games,
at http://www.innamoratagames.com.
Thank you. And I hope you enjoyed it.