help with metallic color

[bvahan5]

i need a help for 2 things

a) to fill a triangle with PMS 824 (metallic gold)
i can't find n pickup such a color in ColorPicker / Custom
(i.e. FreeHand has this group of colors in Swatches/Pantone Metallic Varnished..)

b) to make a black-grey shadow under this figure

thx for help

 

[rickwells]

You can't show a metallic colour in photoshop.
When this job is printed it will be a 2 colour job with the metallic being a special colour and not made from CMYK.
Here's a way to do the job:

Work in CMYK mode.
Have your triangle shape on a layer and fill it with 100%cyan - no magenta, yellow or black.
Duplicate the layer. Fill the bottom layer with 100% black - no cyan, magenta or yellow.
Move the black tiangle across and down to offset it.
Apply a Gausian Blur to the softness you desire.
Now if you look at your channels palette you will see that only the cyan and black channels have work in them.
Flatten the image and save as a tiff.
Instruct your printer to print metallic gold instead of cyan.
The job will print in 2 colours black and gold.
However this only works if you're printing this image on its own. If it's combined with other colour images, text etc then the printed job is likely to need CMYK plus a fifth colour - gold.
Let's know the situation.

 

[bvahan5]

its for the business cards
i do order them from a wholesale printer, usually sending out a PSF file based on CMYK
printer prints my orders along with hundreds of other at a time... its not an individual printing, when u can mix the colors, etc.

its a 4-color process, so i can't seperate the colors, and ask to print chosen color instead of black

as i already said above, Macromedia Freehand has Pantone Metallic option, so it probably codes it in a proper way.

this art work has metallic gold, grey and black

in past i got 2 rejects when printed "scanned std gold" instead of metallic one on a full color card

 

[rickwells]

Okay, the 'gold' colour must be just a CMYK simulation of metallic gold. You can't get the reflective effect of true metallic when using CMYK but simply copy the hue as close as possible.
If you can't find the colour reference you want in P/shop then locate the colour reference in Freehand and load it into the swatches palette. Then convert this into CMYK. In P/shop use the CMYK colour sliders to input the same percentages that are shown in Freehand.

 

[duncdude]

rickwells is right - don't be too concerned with lusting over a lovely metallic colour in Illustrator - because you are not going to get anywhere close

It seems you are fully aware of the rather limited vibrancy of the 4-colour process - so just see what CMYK breakdown the 'gold' has in Illustrator and replicate in Photoshop

For what it is worth!!!


Kind Regards
Duncan