: Printing Visualization - Spot UV I recently got a lot of offset printing jobs and with them the ability to choose options that were not available to me before. So the Problem is that I

@Lengel450

I've been doing some fiddling about, based on earlier answers. It's not perfect, though.


On top of your stack, create a layer with a gradient. Preferably, draw it instead of using a gradient overlay.
Make this layer about 10~20% opauqe and give it a lightening blending mode. Optionally, mask it so it's only visible on the print sample, not on the background.
Duplicate the layer and make the copy ~50% opaque. This is going to be the varnish highlight.
Apply a Glass filter to the highlight layer.
Mask the hightlight layer so it only shows where your spot UV is going to be.

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@Murray976

This is as close as I have gotten to faking Spot UV for my customers... People usually like the printed version even more but that works for me because it has the element of exceeded expectations and surprise ;)
Let me know if you like it and i can send you the .psd


Here is the final product printed:

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@Si6392903

So, I'm not a photoshop expert by any means, but it feels to me like you'd want to do something like the following:


Create a background layer, and fill it dark grey.
Create a new layer on top, and fill it black.
In the same layer, do a gradient fill which goes from white to black, and place this gradient at an interesting angle that'll cut across the key 'varnished' features. e.g. to emulate your photo above.
Switch to layer mask mode, and draw/cut-paste your 'varnish' layer into the mask.
Switch back to normal mode, and you should see something approaching what you're looking for.


At that point, I'd be into playing around with it to get the look I was aiming for - probably doing an emboss to try and make it look slightly raised, for example, or adding a bit of noise.

Sorry, I know that's probably not the world's best answer, but hopefully it'll get you going!

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