Sunday 27 October 2013

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

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