Open the Door into the Science of Color Theory. Blending with Pantone or spot colors. Today I received an Illustrator related question from a reader that really stumped me. I didn't have an answer straight away, so I had to try certain things out to be able to offer some help. Here is the thing: If you're using the blend tool to create a blend between 2 spot colors, it seems that Illustrator turns the values in between these colors into CMYK values.
Are there ways to circumvent this? Is there a way so the blend consists of various hues of the Pantone colors, rather than CMYK values? I guess, if it's possible to change the blend into a simple gradient going from spot color 1 to spot color 2 it solves the issue in a simple way, but what if that isn't possible? What if you blend from 2 different shapes? Because that is one of the things I would use the blend tool for. Create style effect on both ends Create a style effect on both ends of the blend, using 2 fills on top of each other via the Appearance palette. When I thought of this idea, I was thinking "Aha! Create a Five-color Magazine Cover using a Spot Metallic. Printing & Prepress Basics. While art and design schools do an impressive job of teaching the importance of form, function, and how to use flashy Photoshop techniques, it's rare that designers have been taught the skills necessary to pass off their projects to printers so that they may not only successfully, but smoothly, produce a designed work.
In this article, I'll discuss the basics when it comes to translating your brilliant ideas (and surely hours of your precious time and energy) into successfully printed projects with a printer, making it easier to keep your deadlines and maintain a blissfully happy and healthy relationship with your vendor. Four-Color Process Printing While other printing processes like letterpress or screen printing are great options for producing your work, this article will discuss offset lithography printing specifically, which is the more standard means of producing most any printed work in mass quantities. Get the Mode Right Image Quality One of These Blacks is Not Like the Other Bleed.