Photoshop Spot Color Channels by Joyce Evans With Photoshop's Spot Color channel you won't have to bring your images into Illustrator to color and back to your page layout to position just so. Now you can do all of it right in Photoshop.   1 To begin, select the parts of your image or logo you'd like to add a spot color to. Use whichever selection method works best for you. 2 Press the D key to make your selection white, or click the default foreground and background color button. Then press the X key to make the foreground white. Then click Alt+Delete (Option+Delete) to fill with white. 3 If your channel palette isn't open the go to Windows|Show Channels. 4 With your selection still active click on the down arrow in the channels palette and select New Spot Channel New Spot Channel -> Continues next page... Joyce Evans is a freelance reviewer. If you have software or hardware you would like reviewed please send press releases or contact at: Joyce@je-ideadesign.com. Copyright 2000 All Rights Reserved Joyce Evans

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