Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 413 Exporting spot-color separations from Illustrator, part of Deke's Techniques.
- In this movie, I'll show you…how to export spot-color seperations…as a .PDF file from Adobe Illustrator.…And as we'll see, Illustrator is better…at this than Photoshop…but you have to be careful as well.…Now, the first thing I want you…to notice about this logo is that both shades of blue…are represented by a spot-color.…And to confirm that I'll just go ahead…and click on this top shape with the black arrow tool.…And then I'll go up to the window menu…and I'll choose the swatches command…to bring up the swatches panel.…
And notice that my fill is active.…At which point I can go ahead and double-click…on this item called PANTONE 285C.…And sure enough as we can see here…in the swatches dialogue box, our color type…is set to spot-color.…And it's dimmed, meaning that it is hardwired that way.…Now, you can overwrite it you can switch…from Book color to, say, RGB, at which point…you could then change the color type to Process Color.…But we really don't want to do that,…so I'm just going to go ahead and cancel out.…So we preserved the spot-color.…
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1/19/2021Released
1/13/2011Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion.
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