Wondering why Sep Studio sometimes shows more tools than other times? Why do some files separate as solid spot colors while others are always halftone? This is by design. Sep Studio is smart, very smart. It’s not fooled by simply changing a file’s format or extension.
Sep Studio will automatically separate a file into Spot Process Sim Process halftones, or traditional spot color separations based on the internal file data. That’s the best part of Sep Studio, what it’s programmed to do for users.
Need a traditional spot color separation with solid areas, but only have PNG, JPG, or TIF image? Opening and then re-saving a file as a PDF is not going to deliver what you’re looking for. Sep Studio will see right through that because the image data is still raster.
What is needed to be done in these cases is auto-trace the file in CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator, converting the raster data to vector then save the file as a PDF.
If looking for tonal Spot Process Sim Process separations save the files as RGB tif, jpg, png, bmp, or any other format supported by Spot Process.
Trying to make traditional spot color separations from these same formatted files, first open and auto-trace them before saving them as PDF.
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