CS5 Illustrator Workshop

Colour swatches

Clear swatch palette, click colour(s) and drag to the bin to delete.

Choose colour, create swatch. Double click on it and click on 'Global', add tint colour guide, create new swatch.

Process colours CMYK

Spot colours- A colour that is not a mix of CMYK.

Own printing plate- Ready mixed ink.

Colours you can't create with CMYK i.e metallic colours, fluorescent colours.

Branding colours always needs to be the same.

Cost

Spot colours can be cheaper than CMYK as four printing plates have to be used. The more plates the more expensive. Spot colour only requires one plate.

Spot colours on illustrator- Open swatch library- Colour books.

Pantone solid uncoated- Small list view, gives you names of spot colourand unique reference number.

Show find field- Type in reference number. Double click to addto swatch palette.

Pantone process uncoated will be printed as CMYK.

For a varnish use spot colour but specify to printer not to print that pantone colour.

Save swatch library AI to access from any Illustratorfile.

Save a s ASE (Adobe suite exchange) tints will not be open and will need to be recreated in other programs.

In other programs such asInDesign click on swatches- Load swatches- Find swatches, Open.