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Welcome to the fourth section of our video. This section’s entitled “Achieving multi-color
looks in a 1 color document,” and as always its brought to you by Printwand. Last time,
we dealt with making sure that our artwork was either four color or PMS colors. What
we’re looking at here is a one color job and how we can show some variation in our
color but still only use one PMS or Pantone ink.
So we’ve got our Illustrator file open here and we can see that we have two identical
sets of graphics. Each one is made up of two different colored images. Lets first look
at the second set. But, before we do that, we’ll go up to our “Menu Bar,” we’ll
go over to “Window” and then head down to “Swatches,” and we can see here that
it opens up our color “Swatches” pallet. Now if you notice the button in the upper
right hand corner of the “Swatches” pallet, let’s go ahead and select that. We’ll
move down over here to where it says “Large List View” and select that. Let’s grab
the bottom corner of the pallet so that we can see a little more of the colors that we
have here. Now when we select each piece of our artwork notice how the color changes in
the “Swatch Pallet.” We can see that one is one PMS color and the other is a completely
different color. Now, this isn’t what we want. So how can we achieve a two color effect
when we’ve specified to our printer that we only want to use one color?
Well, let’s go back up here and we’ll look at our two images at the top. If we click
from one to the other, we can see that they’re actually both made up of the same PMS color.
How do we accomplish that? Let’s head over to our “Menu Bar,” we’ll go over to
“Window” and then down to “Color.” And this opens up our “Color“ pallet.
And we can see hear that clicking on our lighter colored image we’re only using a percentage
of the color in order to get that effect. If we move that back up to 100, we can see
that the color is identical to the other image. So here we can see how by playing around with
the percentage of the PMS colors that we’re using, we can achieve a multi-color look while
still maintaining it being set up as a one color document. Well, thanks for following
along with us through this section; our next section is going to discuss how to “Set
up a document in CMYK mode” in Illustrator. Make sure to check back often to Printwand
for more video lessons as well as other articles to help you with your marketing and promotional
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