4 color process fade to spot color background

[Kevin M]

I am designing a food wrapper and need to print 4 color process plus around 1-3 spot colors. I am attaching a design and have a process color image that needs to fade into the spot color orange background. What is the best way to set this up so it will seperate properly? I am basically using Photoshop and Illustrator to setup the artwork.

[Kool]

Hi Kevin, welcome to the forum. Just make sure that everything that is supposed to be CMYK is CMYK and everything that is supposed to be a spot color is a spot color. Your printer shouldn't have any trouble separating them. There's thread pinned in the resources section about preparing files for printing. Give it a glance.

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I just wanted to comment on your design.

It's great man. I really like it.

Oh and for the prepress stuff Kool works doing Prepress so whatever he says goes.

Welcome to the forums!

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[Kevin M]

Thanks for the answers. What I am specifically looking for is in Photoshop. In my design you can see an orange background and there is a picture of the inside of an orange that fades into the orange background. How do I setup that file so that it is in CMYK format for the image and a Spot color for the orange background all in the same photoshop file. The rest of the file will be pieced together in illustrator.