Expert: Tom Rouze - 6/9/2006

Question
I have a grayscale Photoshop image that I want to place into
Illustrator then do a live trace. Then expand the live trace so I
have vector art. My question is after I get it this far how do I
convert the gray scale percentages to a spot color  ie: the area
that is 98% Black (k) changes to 98% PMS 485, the area that is
54% Black (k) changes to 54% PMS 485  etc…? The image is
complex so it would take foreever to conver each piece of it
individually. Is there a way to convert the whole image at one
time? I am using Illustrator 12.1 (CS2)

Answer
Hello Scott,

I'm not totally clear on what you're doing or how complex the image is but you could try making a selection then go to select menu> same> fill> then change to what you want.  Without seeing the image this is my suggestion.
That may help.  Hope it works for you.

Tom