I am trying to change CMYK photos in Photoshop. I have the files as 300dpi psd documents.
The image is of a person and the background shadows appear gray and white. I need to make the entire back ground (a white blanket and white back ground) K only (no CMY).
This will be printed flexo on a plastic substrate. The printer requires at least 2% K in all of the white areas. I have masked the human so it will print CMYK. But when I tried to make the background grayscale in K only it won't work. It keeps all the color channels to create the grayscale.
I tried desaturating...to no avail. I also opened the document separately changing it to grayscale. I have also tried making it a bitmap (but this won't work as it loses the photo quality my client wants)
I am desperately trying to figure out how to do this.
Does anyone know how to help without explaining too much on the printer end since I am just a graphic designer trying to make sure I give them EXACTLY what they need!
I appreciate the help!
The image is of a person and the background shadows appear gray and white. I need to make the entire back ground (a white blanket and white back ground) K only (no CMY).
This will be printed flexo on a plastic substrate. The printer requires at least 2% K in all of the white areas. I have masked the human so it will print CMYK. But when I tried to make the background grayscale in K only it won't work. It keeps all the color channels to create the grayscale.
I tried desaturating...to no avail. I also opened the document separately changing it to grayscale. I have also tried making it a bitmap (but this won't work as it loses the photo quality my client wants)
I am desperately trying to figure out how to do this.
Does anyone know how to help without explaining too much on the printer end since I am just a graphic designer trying to make sure I give them EXACTLY what they need!
I appreciate the help!