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[3armspiral]

Hi there, my name is Adam. I finished a one year Graphic Design course last year and have been knocking on doors for work ever since. Recently I scored a freelance gig doing a couple of ads for a taxi company. The design was good, the client was happy, then the newspaper told me to convert it to a spot colour job. After having several nervous breakdowns trying to figure out how to do something that I thought would take 5 minutes (4 hours later), calling my lecturers (fobbed off), I ended up having to ask a very nice member of their in-house design team to do it for me. I'm starting a one day a week work-for-no-money job there next week and I'd really like to be able to do what she did before I walk in the door. You see they don't actually use real spot colours at that newspaper, but instead get the strongest versions of CMYK composites using relevant channels, eg M=100 Y=50 for red etc., plus pure black on another. None of this probably makes any sense but if anyone could give any advice on how to convert full colour images to spot colours (or fake spot colours using channels), or could post a link to a good resource I would be very grateful.