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Hi, I am a small winemaker and we have a label designed in Illustrator. The printer says it is 4-color and if we make it 2-color pantone spot we will save big on costs. The artist says it is 2-color, but not in the right format (rgb or cmyk currently). How do we do this? THANKS!
Hi Jeff
You need to load up the Pantone swatches and assign them.
Go to your swatches palette option tab, or to window>swatch libraries>pantone solid coated or uncoated (depending on the finish you are using).
Click the existing objects and then assign one of the two colors.
When you save this out, there will only be two spot colors, not four process.
Thanks
Kevin
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Adobe Illustrator
Kevin Stohlmeyer
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I am an Adobe Certified Instructor. I can answer all your questions about Adobe Illustrator version 8 through the new Adobe CS5 versions.
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I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Illustrator and have been teaching this application to college students for the past 6 years. I now teach this as a corporate instructor.
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