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I have to produce a lot of highly complex packaging involving a mix of CMYK and several spot colours. I was praying that CS4 would finally include an upgrade to the dismal support for spot colours that Photoshop has. It hasn't changed since lord knows when, Photoshop 2.5 maybe.

I'm talking about introducing something like spot layers, whereby all the functionality of the layers pallette could apply to spot colours, and I could create say a layer group for each spot channel, with full support for alpha channels and vector paths etc, and get an on screen preview of how the spot colours would interact with CMYK elements.

At the moment, I have to produce layer groups comprised of grayscale elements, then merge these and copy them into spot channels, it's incredibly unwieldy. If I could even just add a mask to a spot channel that would be a major help!

I realise I am in a minority of people who push Photoshop to it's absolute limits, using it for high end repro work that might be better suited to a different system, but surely a rethink on spot channel functionality is long overdue , and can only widen the user base?