OUGD504 - Design For Print (7) - Creative Suite Session 1

- Ensuring things are printed successfully (commercially)

- Illustrator today, Photoshop next week, InDesign the week after, and a 'surprise' the week after that.

CMYK - Subtractive Colour Model

Ink's hold a transparency, and when on top of each other, the colours will mix. Various percentages result in different colours we can print.

Usually the lightest colour is applied first - either yellow or cyan. Then magenta, then key.

Black is used as the 'key' colour, as it reinforces darker shades such as shadows, giving the image more depth.

The Use of Colour in Illustrator CS6

Different ways of changing colour:

- Each way will equally and successfully apply colour, but using swatches is best.

- The swatch pallette is a way you can achieve consistency throughout your document.

- Double clicking a swatch will bring up it's CMYK values.

Deleting Swatches:

Changing the View:

Creating a new swatch:

Creating a swatch using the colour palette:

To Edit a Swatch - Double click the swatch, and you can tweak the colours.

Creative a Swatch Pallette:

A pallette will be added, composed of all colours used in the image.

You can also 'add selected colours'

A cut corner/ grey square means the colour added is global:

Global Swatch - A link between the options of colour, and changing the colour. As you change it, you can view it being changed. This will change EVERYTHING that colour.

You can make any swatch global whe creating it, just simply click 'global'.

Colour Pallette allows you to change tints, then save them as different swatches:

By editing the original swatch (100 percent), the other tints will also update:

CMYK - Process Colour - Process being the inks you use in the 4 colour printing process.

Spot colour - A ready made ink, not a combination of CMYK. They are used to save money - A one or two colour ink job. 2 inks is cheaper than 4!

The use of CMYK + spot colours can be more expensive. Spot colours can be used to get special colours that CMYK cannot produce - fluorescent colours, metallic inks.

Spot colours can be used to use an exclusive colour for a brand, and can also maintain consistency.

Pantone allows consistency when working on screen for print. The printer will mix the ink to match the colour of the Pantone swatch. It allows Global consistency.

Applying Pantone to Illustrator

What are the rest of the reference systems? Research.
Difference between coated/ uncoated?
You can search through Pantone Swatch Colours:

Either you choose the Pantone swatch, or your client will give you it.
Clicking once will add to swatches. It is important to not change the name, so the printers know how to mix the ink. The spot in the bottom right allows you to know it's a spot colour, rather than a process colour. Since it's a global colour, you can make tints, and only one ink will still be used.