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no worries, if I post art, let's talk art. Spot colors in simple terms are colors that the computer doesn't know a standard mixture for, or a mix of ink Foose-style - a little of this and a little of that.


Editing this post is kinda pointless, but I re-read and am probably just going to make this more complicated. Anyway, if you talk to a person who runs a press he'll tell you that spot colors are mixed colors, inks. Sorta what I meant by Foose-style, but the Pantone system is an actual system of doing it (which Adobe products have built in) .... what I did was just make up colors, using CMYK. The reason it's an issue is that the monitor doesn't always show me exactly what I'm going to get. Neither does the Pantone system, but at least it's close. I have a Pantone book with swatches so I can look at it and say, I like this color, and know that my print is going to be pretty good. Better than guessing. I have no idea if that makes it any clearer. So in some sense I ALWAYS use spot colors, I'm using the term erroneously, but I'm not actually mixing ink and my image will be CMYK - the actual spot color will never ACTUALLY be used. I guess my meaning is more of a generalization .... a made-up color. In the print world it's simple. Spot colors are a color where I take ink, mix the color I like and print it. The other option (process) is to take an image, seperate all the colors into cyan, magenta, yellow and black and print with only those 4 colors, for everything.