Software Workshop :Illustrator

This morning we had the chance to develop our skills and understanding further, in terms of professional working methods to using colour in Illustrator. There has been a lot of useful tips and effective ways that I have learned, making it easier in future projects.

Process Colours - A process colour is printed using a combination of the four standard process inks: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. By default, Illustrator defines new swatches as process colours.

Global Process Colours - A global colour is automatically updated throughout your artwork when you edit it. All spot colours are global; however , process colours can be either global or local. You can identify global colour swatches by the the global colour icon (when the panel is in list view) or a triangle in the lower corner (when the panel is in the thumbnail view).

Spot colours - A spot colour is a premixed ink that is used instead of, or in addition to, CMYK process inks. You can identify spot-colour swatches by the spot-colour icon (when the panel is in the list view) or a dot in the lower corner (when the panel is in the thumbnail view).

- Notes: 27/11/2011