Illustrator and Printing Process Tutorial, Doing a Spot-To-Spot Gradient (Pantones) with Overprint
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this tutorial, I cover how to use opacity masks to successfully make a spot color to spot color blend without that nasty looking grey problem in the center. This tutorial also covers a little bit of printing process terms, and helpful hints. Facebook: / fictionalhead
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Hi , this information is a goldmine and not being shared by senior graphics designers. Thank you so much for sharing this!
I totally agree.
This was really useful, even though it's an old tutorial. Now that Transparency is possible in Gradients in Illustrator CC, I skipped the Opacity Mask step, but used the overprint fill on the darker colour, and the spot two colour gradient looks so much better. Thanks for sharing.
Wow - thank you SO much for sharing this!!! Not enough people talk about this, so I really appreciate it!!
Thank you! I've been looking for a logic easy understandable explanation of why that nasty gray happens between two pantone gradient! THANK YOU!
I've been in commercial printing all my life, from Illustrator 3 and Quark 3, before InDesign was even a thought. Was getting an issue with CS6 creating a Pantone gradient and Black giving me bad separations, full cmyk as well as a 3rd spot colour that wasn't in the gradient, and your instruction totally cleared it up. Film has ripped and I'm laying it up.
Thanks.
Dude! You really are an amazing person to share something like this - visually.
I have literally been researching for half an hour on how to make spot colours blend to each other properly and Adobe forums are all like Uni theory book notes with no straight answer. I'm making a branding style guide on one nightmarish logo with 9 PANTONE COLOURS, 4 of them in GRADIENTS! I was the unfortunate fool, who took another designers logo that had a shit load of mindless gradients. I can't blame them though, because it is possibly the mindless client who wanted it. Just having to dissect this logo and figure out why they weren't blending properly - boy I wanted to hunt down and hurt somebody. Anyway, thanks to this video - I saw the light.
Huge help on multiple projects! Thanks! Got this one bookmarked.
you are a life saver! thank you
Wow very nice!
Great trick!
extremely helpful, thanks!
Thanks for sharing this!
great info..thank you
Nice, teaching skills. to the point, thanks
Hi Thank you so much, so easy to follow, really helpful! You are a gifted educator! One thing thought, when I save it to PDF, to send it to print I'm not really sure what to do. My first obstacle is whether to check "Discard White Overprint" or not. Then under Output: Mode: should I use the "Separations (Host Based)"? Note this will not be printed on a t-shit, it will be a business card. The other thing is should I check Overprint black under Output as well? The last thing is, I did try to print the separations, but it does not show my colors, though it does give me the different color separations pages. in other words it is only in black in white but I get two different pages, where the different colors would be. Client requested separations. Yelp, not sure how to go about it.
Thank you. I will do that.
Thank you very much for this tutorial. The best I've found so far on this subject. I have a question I hope you can help me with.
We produce an image with a blue background. The background used to go from CMYK colors 30,0,0,0 to 85,15,0,0 and finally to (100,80,0,0 or 100,85,0,0) Our logo gets printed in the darkest sky color which is 100,80,0,0 or 100,85,0,0. The darkest is not always the same, sometimes we get a magenta tint
So we want to use Pantone + 2146. won't let me add more.
Great.👍
One more question, won't the overprinting with the spot color cause a spot color that is actually darker than the desired color?
Based on yor explanation I could start with 30,0,0,0 go to 85,15,00, and then stay at that value for the rest of the gradient space. Then overlay on top of that a gradient from Pantone 2146 at the top to white. With over printing. Is this what you would suggest? Probably do it as a channel in photoshop.
thanks