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Troubleshooting and overprinting

Troubleshooting and overprinting - Illustrator Tutorial

From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Advanced

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Troubleshooting and overprinting

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- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you another way to troubleshoot a document. This time using what's known as overprinting. Which allows you to print one ink directly on top of another. So for example, notice here, I've got this gradient version of my logo. I'm still using the same three inks, by the way. And you can confirm that's the case by going up to the Window menu and choosing the Separations Preview command. In my case the panel's empty because I'm working inside an RGB document. So I'll go up to the File menu, choose Document Color Mode and then choose CMYK Color. And I want you to see how we're gonna see a little bit of color shifting on screen. That actually is meaningless, by the way. Again, because we're working exclusively with spot colors, they're actually gonna print actually the same, whether the document is set to RGB or CMYK. It's just a function of the screen display and nothing more. And so, to gain access to my inks here, I'll go ahead and turn on the…

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