How to convert color photo to black and white for commercial printing?

[mwenz]

Lew--you are not going to be able to color a grayscale photo with a spot color and have it output in a spot color in Xara. Well, unless someone knows of a way because I do not. I would be happy if I am wrong.

Normally, most all spot color work I compose in PagePlus. Vector work is pretty much all done in Xara, but all components are taken into PP and composed there for output.

However, when it comes to duotone images, it needs to be done in InDesign. Whether the PS output is PSD, EPS or PDF, ID will output the spot color whereas just about nothing else will.

take care, Mike

[mwenz]

I did forget to add that PagePlus can color an image with a single Pantone color and output it properly. This is rarely an optimal solution, though. Nearly always one needs to use black and the transfer function inherent in the PSD or EPS duotone output for a good color balance.

Take care, Mike

[Artworx]

Mike, you are correct, I cannot apply spot color to grayscale photo in xara and output it to spot color. I can color gray tiff files in Quark and InDesign and output to spot color. I've been using XDPX, lately, for about 50% of my commercial work. Trying to get one program that does everything is very hard to do. Xara does a great job for most things. Thanks for your comments. Later! Lew