NEON USER GUIDE - Touch7

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EXSYSTEM REQUIREMENTSand other important information ................................... P.03

INSTALLATION ................................................................ P. 04

ACTIVATION ..................................................................... P. 05

PRESETS:

OVERVIEW .......................................................................... P. 06

HOW TO:Converting an image ....................................................... P. 07RIP/Output your design .................................................. P. 08

ADVANCED FEATURES SCR (Source Colour Removal) ...................................P. 9-11

TIPS & TRICKSRGB v CMYK IMAGES ....................................................... P. 12

FURTHER ENHANCING YOUR

GENERATED NEON SEPARATIONS ............................ P. 12

WORKING WITH IMAGES IN PDFs ............................... P. 13

DELETING HISTORY SNAPSHOTS .............................. P. 14

SUPPORT ............................................................................ P. 15


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SMinimum system requirements

Mac or PC running Adobe Photoshop CC or higher.

Settings for the RIP/DFE

Spot Colour Name LAB Values

T7-NeonBlue L: 55 A: -38 B: -43T7-NeonPink L: 61 A: 76 B: -16T7-NeonYellow L: 93 A: -19 B: 69

Mapping to your devices neon fluorescent inksAt the RIP/DFE, map/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.

Recommended inks for analogue printingYou can use your own preferred inks, however, if you wish to print using inks recommended by Touch7, we recommend the following inks:

Spot Colour Name Recommended ink

T7-NeonBlue Pantone® 801T7-NeonPink Pantone® 806T7-NeonYellow Pantone® 803

PANTONE® is the property of Pantone LLC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © Pantone LLC, 2017. All rights reserved.


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NInstallation guidelines for Adobe Photoshop® CC

Step 1 Download and install ZXPInstaller from: www.zxpinstaller.com

Step 2 Download the Touch7 Photo NEON™ plugin: www.touch7.co/touch7demo

Step 3 Open the ZXPInstaller application and drag the Touch7 Photo NEON.zxp file onto the ZXPInstaller window:

Step 4 Quit and Restart Photoshop. Your plugin should now be available from: Window > Extensions > Touch7 Photo NEON™


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NActivating your Touch7 Photo NEON™ plug-in

The Touch7 Photo NEON™ plug-in will work as a free 7 Day trial. At any stage of the trial period, you may enter a valid license code to unlock the full Touch7 plug-in.

If you have any problems registering your Touch7 Photo NEON plug-in, please contact us for assistance at [email protected]

Type in your email address and press the “Click to Send” button to start the Activation Process

Type in your Activation Code (Your Activation Code was sent to the email address you used in Step 1, above) Press the “Click to Send” button to Activate the plug-in. The plug-in will now work in demo mode for 7 days.

Type in your License Code If you have purchased a license code, type it in here and press the “Click to Send” button to unlock the full Touch7 Photo plug-in. Your plug-in will now work for the duration of your license.

Click here if you would like to Purchase a License Code

TOUCH7 PHOTO COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION

PURCHASE A LICENSE CODE

Enter your email address (Step 1) and click the send button to begin the Activation Process. You will be sent an email with your Activation Code – Paste it in the box in Step 2 and click the send logo to start a FREE 7 day trial

If you have purcahsed a license code, you may activate the full Touch7 plugin at any time by following Steps 1 and 2 – Then paste your license code in the box below (step 3) and click the send logo. Note: If you have already done steps 1 and 2, proceed directly to step 3 below and enter your license code and click the send logo

To purchase a Touch7 License Code, click the link below to be taken to our webstore. Your License Code will be sent via email

Step 1: Enter your e-mail here:CLICK TO

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Step 2: Paste activation code here: CLICK TO SEN

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SAn overview of the Touch7 preset buttons

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 videos to make sure you are getting the best image separation: www.touch7.co/support/tutorials

Create One Spot Colour

Create Two Spot Colours

Create Three Spot Colours

NEON FLUORESCENT INKS

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Converting an image

Touch7 works seamlessly with devices that utilise neon fluorescent inks. However, unlike a press profile that applies colour management across the entire ripped data, Touch7 empowers creatives to enhance selective colours and areas of an artwork at the design stage.

Watch our tutorial videos to make sure you are getting the best image separation: www.touch7.co/support/tutorials

To create your spot neon fluorescent separations, simply click on the appropriate coloured button(s).

NOTE: Not all digital devices will use a neon fluorescent blue ink, however, blue fluorescent inks are popular on offset and screen printing engines. It is advised only to use the ink separations that are compatible with your device.

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How to RIP/Output your designs

When outputting your Touch7 designs on your printing device, we would recommend that you add the Touch7 spot colour names and LAB values to your RIP so that future jobs are processed seamlessly, by mapping the Touch7 spot colours to the corresponding ink used on your press. For example, T7-NeonPink would be mapped to the Pink ink on your device.

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DESIGN: A file is opened up and converted using the Touch7 plug-in, which automatically extracts/creates the neon fluorescent areas from your design, resulting in a CMYK design and your chosen neon spot colours.

RIP & PRINT: The Touch7 design is then ripped using your own press profile – With the Touch7 spot separations being mapped to the neon inks used on the printer/press.

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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 colour(s) 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.

Watch our tutorial video on SCR for a hands on demonstration that shows the before and after effect of using this advanced feature: www.touch7.co/support/tutorials

SCR can be applied to individual Touch7 spot colours, giving you freedom to control how your design prints

Unlike using the PRESETS buttons which ADDs a spot colour to enhance the colour saturation of your image (the latest plugin update will convert any CMYK image into RGB to perform the best image separation – you can convert the RGB back into CMYK without any data loss), the SCR feature is designed to SUBTRACT the NEON spot colour value from your image so that you use less ink in the CMYK areas when printing with the NEON ink on your press. For a visual guide of how this works, please read the next page.




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Advanced Features - SCR

How to process an image using the SCR buttons.

Step 1: Open your image and choose which NEON separation(s) to create. In this instance we will create a PINK separation.

Step 2: Using “LEVELS” in Photoshop, set your shadow point to push more colour in to the NEON separation (if desired) – The SCR feature will subtract this colour hue from your source image.

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Press the corresponding SCR buttons for your image separations. For example, if you have PINK and YELLOW separations, you need to press the PINK SCR and YELLOW SCR buttons.




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EDThis image has the NEON PINK separation shown on top of the original CMYK image – if this image was printed as it is, the pink will add extra colour saturation to the printed image.

The image shown to the left, is without the NEON PINK separation, to show you how the original source image has had the colour removed from where the pink ink will print.

The final image will now print with just the neon pink ink without any colour underneath it.

Image BEFORE using the SCR feature

Source Image AFTER using the SCR feature

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SWorking with RGB or CMYK images

Although Touch7 Photo NEON will work with both RGB and CMYK images, whenever possible we advise working with CMYK images. This is because when printing with a neon Pink, Yellow or Blue ink, the plugin will separate out the Pink (magenta), Yellow and Blue (cyan) pixels within the image – this is achieved best when working with a CMYK image, so that the plugin can calculate the separation based on the CMY pixels within the image. Whereas an RGB image is an additive colour space, where you are calculating separations based on red, green and blue primaries, which is better suited to working with red, green and blue inks (extended gamut).

Further enhancing your generated neon separations

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 in to your design by using your LEVELS in Photoshop.

Use your “LEVELS” in Photoshop to add more colour to your NEON separations

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. To see a video tutorial of how this works, please visit www.touch7.co/support/tutorials


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SWorking with images in PDF files

Touch7 can be used to process images 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 you wish to convert and go to the “EDIT USING” feature, and select your version of Adobe Photoshop – If you do not see a version of Adobe Photoshop listed, navigate to your preferred Photoshop application, using the “Open with...” option.

Step 4: Your image will then open up in Photoshop – Next, process the image using Touch7 Photo NEON, and once you are happy with your file conversion, save and close the image.

Step 5: Next, go back to your PDF in Adobe Acrobat and your image will automatically update, bringing in the extra Touch7 spot colours.


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SDeleting history snapshots

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.

Watch our tutorial video on how to delete history snapshots on our website: www.touch7.co/support/tutorials

Note: If you do not delete the previous History Snapshots, the Touch7 preset buttons will be locked, ensuring that you do not accidentally delete your existing separations.


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If you require technical support for your Touch7 plugin, please first check our FAQs* on our website to see if the answers to your questions have already been asked:

www.touch7.co/support/FAQs

*We add any known support issues to our FAQ database.

If you cannot find the answers to your questions and require assistance, please contact our support team at:

[email protected]

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