: I need to convert a logo into four spot colours I was given a logo by a client and last year I vectorised it, but it was coloured up as per the original, which was fine for her digital

@Berryessa866

Here is a different spin on @JohnB 's separating the original into 4 colors. In Photoshop,I converted the original image from RGB into index mode and forced the design to render as 4 colors only. Next I converted back into RGB mode and created new spot channels from the 4 colors. The spot color separations are not half tones. No color overlaps another color.



With the separations as I created them, they are appropriate for screen printing or offset printing.

If anyone is interested in seeing the actual separations file, Here is a download link

4 COLOR PUMPKIN INDEX SEPS

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@Pierce403

Based on those print requirements, it sounds like you're trying to have your logo screen printed. The printers are asking for this because they want the artwork in a suitable format for the color separation process. To facilitate that, your logo needs to be constructed using exclusively spot colors.

Depending on how complicated the colors in your logo are, that might mean that you need to sacrifice some detail. Here's a quick example to show why:



Pumpkin courtesy of publicdomainvectors.org

You could regain some of the pumpkin's detail with some fine-tuning and adding in more shadows, or you could even use halftones to simulate gradients. Specifically for a logo though, I think you should just avoid gradients when reducing it to spot colors.

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@Dunderdale640

Basically they printers deal in no more than 4 colours per image. With the version you "vectorised" just change the logo to either 1 colour or as little as possible (but no more than 4).

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