u/Beeso3

Can you "force" a layer into a certain channel?

Hey all,

I am working on a project which requires heavy use of a spot colour channel since we are working on a printer that can print white ink for special effects on coloured paper.

I've been using an extra channel in my files for this, but it seems like each time I want to make a minor change, I need to erase the channel, select the fill layers I want, and paste them back into the channel.

This obviously gets a little cumbersome, especially at the phase of the project where we might just need to test one or two tiny changes to the images, but need to repeat the same process anyway.

So, I ask: Is there a way to flag fill layers (or masks or any other kind of layer) to just automatically apply itself into the spot colour layer without needing to manually paste it in?

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u/Beeso3 — 19 days ago