Color Seperation

[jchooper12]

Does anyone know of a simple method for seperating indivdual colors in say a 6 color graphic into seperate layers using CS3? We are doing some silk screening and we want to have an action or somthing that we can just run that will put each color into it's own layer. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

[jchooper12]

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[ramblinray]

Being a rookie at PS, I would think you could use channels or curves to do what you want. I guess it would depend on the six colors you are trying to extract. Red, green and blue should be relatively easy, other colors not so much so. Come on, I know there are some PS savants in the TPF group, help John out.

[bondarnes]

Are you wanting RGB or CMYK?

[picman]

I don't think this what you are looking for, but you might find it helpful.
"Save as" DCS file format. When the next dialog comes up chose something with "multiple" in it. You will then get separate files representing the CMYK values.

[Duffy Pratt]

It will depend on the colors. It's more than likely that you will be able to use the A and B channels of LAB to isolate four of them. It will be easy if they are Yellow, Blue, Red/Magenta, and Green. And the purer the colors, the easier it should be.

Why don't you post an example?

Duffy