Color Separations With Desktop Publishing Software

CorelDRAW / Photo-Paint: How to Create Spot Color Separations
These are videos that walk and talk you through the process of separating bitmap files with Corel Software.

Illustrator: How to Create Your Own Color Separations
9 step illustrated tutorial shows how to create spot color separations as a PDF file from Adobe Illustrator.

Illustrator: How to Make Color Separations
No pictures but this eHow tutorial walks you through 7 steps starting with preliminary tasks such as color calibration.

InDesign: Create Color Separated PDFs With Adobe InDesign
Read the explanation as well as the reader comments for information on PDFs, InDesign, and color separations.

Photoshop: Spot Color Separations
For Photoshop 5, this Photoshop 911 tutorial walks through creating new spot channels, converting existing channels to spot channels, and finishing.

Photoshop: Why Your Photoshop Color Separations are Wrong ...
...and How to Fix the Problem. This PDF article describes how to make "a proper CMYK color separation for sheet-fed printing."

Publisher: About Color Separations and Microsoft Publisher
Here's what you can and can't do in Microsoft Publisher when doing color separations.

Publisher: Separations in Publisher 98
Still using Microsoft Publisher 98 and need to create separations. Here's what you can do.

QuarkXPress: Exporting Spot Color Separations to PDF
This article describes using PDF export to create color separations from QuarkXPress documents.

QuarkXPress: What QuarkXPress Does With Spot Colors in EPS
Some tips for EPS graphics with spot colors when printing from QuarkXPress.