ABOBE CREATIVE SUITE – WORKSHOP 01

DESIGN FOR PRINT

ILLUSTRATOR

HOW TO WORK WITH COLOUR

CMYK//RGB – Common colour modes.

CMYK is subtractive – RGB is additive.

CMYK is also known as Process colour.

Key (Black) – Actual black – pulls all the image together

Yellow

Cyan

Magenta

Key

-       Common print order.

Shortcut to flick between stroke & fill – ‘x’

SWATCH PALLET

-       Same every time.

-       Apply colour consistently.

-       Menu.

-       Select all unused.

-       Bin.

-       Small list view.

Registration

-       Used for printing printers marks.

-       Should only be used for this.

-       Not actually black.

Adding swatches

-       Leave name as CMYK percentage.

-       Can use colour pallet – colour spectrum.

-       Use eyedrop to sample colour from artwork to create a new swatch and apply constantly.

Add used colours

-       Creates swatch from every single colour in image.

-       Differences can be seen in the swatch pallet.

Double click swatches to change.

Swatches created from image are global swatches rather than local swatches.

-       Global means there is a link between swatch and image.

-       Locals can become global y checking the box.

Add tint swatches

-       Change percentage in colour.

-       Create new swatch.

-       Appears in list with percentage.

-       If you change the 100% colour, the tints will change.

INKS

CMYK – Process inks

Spot Colour

-       Colour that is printed not by mixing but is pre-mixed.

-       Expense.

-       Requires only one ink – cheaper.

-       Requires only one plate – cheaper.

-       Can be more expensive by adding more spot colours.

-       Consistency – always the same.

-       More interesting//alternative inks.

-       Pantone – only works successfully with industrial//commercial print.

Access Pantone swatches within Illustrator

-       Pallet menu

-       Open swatch library

-       Colour books

-       Small list

-       Find field

-       Type in reference

-       Click on colour and it will be added to swatches

-       Can then set up tints

-       Never change the name

May want to transfer colour pallet through designs and software

-       Save it as another illustrator file – Save as AI

-       New illustrator – open swatch library

-       User defined – choose

Use in other software

-       Save as ASE

-       Save as a file rather than buried in folders