At the RIP/DFE, assign the Touch7 spot colour to the corresponding ink on your press – For example, T7-NeonPink would be printed with the Pink ink on your printing device. See example below as demonstrated using the Fiery RIP.

Touch7 gives you the ability to selectively enhance your images. Simply choose which spot colour(s) you would like to create, by clicking the appropriate coloured button.

Watch our tutorial video if you need help on how to assign ink values to your spot channels.

You have now assigned the specific press partner ink values to your spot channel.

TIP: You can create an action set of the above process to speed up your workflow.

SCR is a little bit like UCR, but whereas UCR restricts the amount of ink printed in the shadows, SCR is used to remove the equivalent hue value of the Touch7 spot colours from the original source image – this feature is particularly useful when you wish to extract out a range of colour from your image, that you wish to be swapped out for the NEON ink on your press.

How to process an image using the SCR buttons.

Touch7 can only extract out colour information that is in the image. If your image has very little neon colour data, you can add more colour into your design by using your LEVELS in Photoshop.

We would advise to increase the amount of colour in your separations by controlling the shadow point on the histogram, as shown in the images above . When you are happy with your separations, click on OK.

When the Touch7 plug-in processes an image, it needs to create “History snapshots” at various stages of the file conversion. Once you have processed an image, if you wish to undo what you have done and try a different Touch7 preset button, you would first need to delete the previous history snapshots.

The first time you work with one of the Touch7 Neon color palettes for InDesign, you will need to manually load it. You only need to do this once! (Provided that your computer doesn't crash before you quit from InDesign, the palette will be in the drop down list the next time you open InDesign). The following procedure would be applied to each of the palettes you wish to open.

1. Open your “SWATCHES” window (Window > Color > Swatches)

2. Click the the sub menu in the top right of the swatches window

3. Select NEW COLOR SWATCH …

From the new window that opens up:

4. Click the COLOR MODE drop down menu

5. Select OTHER LIBRARY

Touch7 can be used to process images and vector graphics within a customer supplied PDF – However, due to the limitations of Adobe Acrobat, it’s only possible to process one image at a time.

Step 1
Open your PDF file using Adobe Acrobat (requires a full version of Adobe Acrobat Pro/DC)

Step 2
Using the Adobe Acrobat Tools, select the “EDIT PDF” function.

Step 3
Select the image or vector graphic you wish to convert and go to the “EDIT USING” feature, and select either Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator depending on what you are editing.

Step 4
Your image or vector graphic will then open up in in Photoshop or Illustrator – For Photoshop, process the image using the Touch7 Photo Neon plugin, and once you are happy with your file conversion, save and close the image. For Adobe Illustrator, use the Touch7 Neon Graphic Style palette to add neon colors to the vector graphic, save and close the file.

Step 5
Next, go back to your PDF in Adobe Acrobat and your image/vector will automatically update, bringing in the extra Touch7 spot color(s).