For this session we will be working on Adobe Illustrator.
Colour Modes:
RGB - Mode for screen
CMYK - Mode for print
CMYK are the four inks used print. They work during the printing process and an amount of ink is used and are transparent and will mix, creating new colours during the printing process.
Black is the key colour because it reinforces the cyan, magenta and yellow inks to create shadows.
When setting up a new page, open the advanced tab and make sure the colour mode is set to CMYK. It is the default mode used in illustrator for design for print.
We then created a shape on our page and looked at ways we could apply colour
Infill Boxes
Colour Pallet
Colour Picker
We chose to focus on the swatches pallet because it allows you to work consistently with the same colour.
On the swatch pallet menu, if you have colour that you dont use click on select all and drag to the bin
Also to change the size / view of your swatches use the same menu bar
Registration is used for the printer marks. Only use it if your creating printers marks
Using the CMYK sliders and creating a new swatch you can create your own swatch colours.
You can also do this process with the colour picker and just go on create new swatch option in the menu bar.
If you want to change the colour that you have chosen, just switch to the colour menu bar and play around with the CMYK sliders.
We were then asked to create 5 shapes with different colours.
To add all the colours that I have used in this design from the colour picker,
I can simply use the swatch menu bar and select add used colours.
Then the colours are added to the swatch pallet.
The difference between a normal swatch and a global swatch is that, a global swatch can't change the inks percentage of the design you have applied it to.
Global
Normal
Global colour examples:
A global swatches ink percentages can't be changed, it can only work with the T bar.
The T stands for tints which is beneficial when working with a fixed coloured brief.
If you edit your 100% global swatch and click preview all your objects that have tints within that swatch will change.
I experimented with orange and pink on the sliders.
Process colour refers to CMYK, which means the inks used in the printing process.
SPOT COLOURS
A spot colour is a colour/ ink that is individual. If you produce a design using only one of these colours it will be cheaper.
If you use CMYK and a spot colour, you design will be more expensive.
Spot colours are beneficial to create fluorescent and metallic inks and to create consistency.
Always to create a specific colour to comply with a specific brand e.g Sainsbury's - Orange.
PANTONE: Colour library swatches for different colours and stocks. Each colour has a specific reference number / code for you to work from.
To use spot colours we have to have them in the swatch pallet.
You can change the layout of your swatches to make it more clear, or use the finder to get the specific colour. Then add it to your swatch by clicking once.
It's important not to change the name of your PANTONE colours or the printer won't recognise it.
By using tints of your spot colour it can create a tonal range and costing you no more money.
In the swatches menu, you can save your swatches that you have worked with. > save swatch library as AI
If you open a new document, you can locate your swatch library through the steps above.
Your colour swatches will open into a new swatch folder.
To save this so that the pallet appears in other programmes it will be beneficial to save the swatch in your file work and then use the > load swatch menu.
From this session I learnt about process and spot colours and how they differentiate when it comes to printing and costs. I also learnt about the global colours and you can create tints from them and how they can change the colour of the objects you are working on.
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