You had me at ‘hello’.
IMPORTANT
No matter what your design looks
like or which software you use, you
ALWAYS have to make a SPOTColor to define where you want
coldfoil.
Name this spot-color “foil” in all of
your applications.
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On this page you can find several
techniques and tips to apply
Inline coldfoil to your design.
Vector with coldfoil
(overprint, multiply or mixed ink)
5 different ways, same result.
foil on top and in overprint
CMYK on top and in overprint
foil on top and in multiply
Once you have a spot-color you can
combine that spot-color with CMYK
to get different metalic colors.
Download this document:
www.groepmatthys.com/
what_a_dump.zip
(check out the layers for more info)
So go try some coldfoil and we’re
going to make you an offer you
can’t refuse. Show me the money!
This one is for pre-pressers and designers.
(Don’t give this to representatives,
they can’t handle the truth)
Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to
be a bumpy night.
CMYK on top and in multiply
Mixed Ink Swatch*
*A mixed ink swatch is used to mix a spot-color
with CMYK. Ideal for coldfoil or Spot-UV.
Check out the colors named mix - foil - .....
in the Swatches panel. They’re here!
My Precious
You can also use mixed ink on
The stuff that dreams are made of.
A logo with coldfoil
imported from Illustrator.
Yes you can.
Coldfoil
Glue
Black
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
paper
input
TEXT.
Varnish
paper
output
You can make
the size of a
font very small.
Even at 3pt coldfoil will
not give a problem, but I’ll have
Houston, we have a
problem. Because
of the reflection of
coldfoil, a barcode
or QR-code can
give problems with
certain scanners or
mobile devices.
what she’s having.
Images with coldfoil in 3 ways
1. in photoshop in a spot-channel (best way)
2. in photoshop in a 2nd image (difficult)
3. draw in indesign on top of the image (not very accurate)
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=
Gradients on coldfoil, Yep.
Black on coldfoil, Yep,
Open these images in Photoshop
and check out the channels.
Go ahead, make my day.
but don’t make rich black to dark
Screening CMYK = 200 Lpi
Screening coldfoil = 85 Lpi
0c 0m 0y 100b
50c 50m 50y 100b
Sometimes
less is
How thin can I make a stroke?
1,00 pt
0,75 pt
0,50 pt
0,25 pt
0,10 pt
Foil = 50 %
Cool, and if you add CMYK?
1,00 pt
0,75 pt
0,50 pt
0,25 pt
more.
But frankly, my dear,
I don’t give a damn.
0,10 pt
Foil = 25 %
And if you can’t figure things out, well, nobody’s perfect. Phone home at +32 14 42 27 26. After all, tomorrow is another day!
For the ones who are stealing our designs, here’s looking at you, kid. You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?