From the course: Print Production: Spot Colors and Varnish

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Illustrator lets you add a little bit of dimensionality to shapes by using some 3D methods. Now, it isn't really a 3D program, but it adds the illusion of depth. So, this is a job that's going to print in black and Pantone 021 orange. I'm going to select this flower, and see what happens when I use the Extrude & Bevel. When I preview, well, doesn't look bad. It's, maybe it's a little too far, maybe I'll make this a little bit more shallow. Oh, a little trick if you don't know it, if you want to increase or decrease the value in a field, and you don't feel like typing or in this case that little slider's not very exact, you can use your Arrow keys. So, I just clicked in that field, if I hit my Down Arrow, see it reduces the value, hit my Up Arrow, it goes up. And if you're in a hurry, Shift makes it go faster. So, that's probably about right. One little depth, don't want to get carried away. notice this little caution here though. It says, spot colors will be convereted to process…

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