I am new to graphic design, The other day I designed a flyer for a church programme with photoshop and went to do the colour separation/printing, they said I should have used corel draw to design the thing for easy colour separation process.I tried importing it to corel draw but the whole design was distorted! My question is, can't they do the separation directly in photoshop?

Each design software has color sepration, just dat d technique is difrent 4 each. Coreldraw is very popular dats y it seems to b d standad in nigeria. U can export d work as jpg or png and import it into coreldraw

Thanks bro for your response. I suggested that to them and they said that if the file is converted to jpeg, it will affect the quality of colours on the flyer. I was confused, I was forced to do the design with coreldraw all over again. Pls can you guide me through the process?

Spandy: Thanks bro for your response. I suggested that to them and they said that if the file is converted to jpeg, it will affect the quality of colours on the flyer. I was confused, I was forced to do the design with coreldraw all over again. Pls can you guide me through the process?

is it dat u wnto learn how to use coreldraw?? Or i shud try using coreldraw 2 hlp u replicate d artwork

@spandy
by default, photoshop designs in RGB color format which is cool if u intend to use a photoprinter.
by default, corel uses CMYK color mode, which is most widely used when preparing artwork to be printed using process colours/ ink.

u say u are new to graphic design, so i would suggest that u use Corel until your knowledge base increases to the point where u grasp the different colour modes and how to switch. u can still use CMYK colour mode in Photoshop when designing to avoid the colour change if u are to import to CorelDraw.
u dont need to convert to jpeg, Corel will read photoshop format...but u may have to rasterize some effects in Photoshop before importing.
ur colours will remain the same in both apps as long as u use the same colour modes.

what exactly do u mean when u say 'distorted'?

cheers