Remap Cyan to Spot Color using PitStop Pro 7.52

[Tech]

Per subject title, I'm trying to re-map cyan to a spot color but it appear the settings are not applying itself. Can someone take a look at attached screen shot and let me know if I have it setup right or wrong? Suggestions welcome.


Thanks,
Tech

[Joe]

I've never been able to get Pitstop to properly remap process to spot colors especially with global change. There is a Pitstop action for "Remap Separation" that will remap it but it never comes out at the right percentages, for example a 100% cyan does not come out as 100% in the separation you are mapping it to. It seems like maybe it converts to grayscale before doing the remap and everything comes out much lighter in the remapped separation than the original.

[mattbeals]

Before you make the change you first have to turn OFF color management. *Everything* gets passed through color management. They don't map the absolute values of one space into another.

[Joe]

Before you make the change you first have to turn OFF color management. *Everything* gets passed through color management. They don't map the absolute values of one space into another.

Tried that Matt. I have color management turned off by default. Still doesn't convert the same as the original separation.

[zoran]

I always found that color remaping was clunky in Pitstop.
We are lucky to have Prinect Acrobat spot plugin which does it like a charm and it behaves as advertised. You don't need to be PhD to map any process color to spot or vice versa, hats off to Heidelberg for that one.

[the_brain]

Per subject title, I'm trying to re-map cyan to a spot color but it appear the settings are not applying itself. Can someone take a look at attached screen shot and let me know if I have it setup right or wrong? Suggestions welcome.


Thanks,
Tech

Try instead of going to a color, going to a colorspace. Then select the option Separation and define you spot color using the color picker.
Don't forget that color management is performed, so make sure you use the correct settings or disable it in the preferences.

TIP: because you using an Action List, you can override any color management setting using the action 'Override color management settings'. You can also disable CMM for only this Action List this way.

Hope this helps,
Bert

[Tech]

Color management is off and remap to color or color space, neither setting work as intended. If PitStop is a must have, this is rather disappointing.

[mattbeals]

Color management is off and remap to color or color space, neither setting work as intended. If PitStop is a must have, this is rather disappointing.

A long standing debate I've had with development.

[the_brain]

Color management is off and remap to color or color space, neither setting work as intended. If PitStop is a must have, this is rather disappointing.

Did you send your issue to Enfocus Support? If you want I'll take a look at your file. Just let me know what your intended result would be.

cheers,
bert

[Joe]

Lets say someone wants to map the Cyan to PMS 293 CVU. The intended result is to make the spot density the same as the original separation, ie...5% C = 5% PMS293, 25% C = 25% PMS 293, 50% C = 50% PMS 293, 100% C = 100% PMS 293. Have never been able to get that to work. I am still using Pitstop 7.5x though to be fair if this has been fixed in a later version.