KennyRohan
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Received Acrobat PDF logo from customer RGB (300 dpi). I would like to convert to 3 SPOT colors. What is the best way to do this? Somehow in Photoshop? Illustrator? Corel? Thank you.
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Need spot colors from PDF file 1
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Open in Illustrator - better if you save from Acrobat as eps - use eydropper tool to grab a color. Drag that color from tool pallete to swatches window and convert to spot. If you're going to print make sure to go to cmyk.
Dependng on where it's being printed and if there's text in the logo, 300 could be a bit light on the resolution. You might want to open in phoitshop and export paths to Illustrator.
Dependng on where it's being printed and if there's text in the logo, 300 could be a bit light on the resolution. You might want to open in phoitshop and export paths to Illustrator.
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KennyRohan
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I converted the PDF to an EPS in Photoshop and then brought it into Illustrator. I used the eyedropper to create the 3 spot colors in the Swatch palette. However, I could not "ungroup" the logo so I could get to each individual part to colorize in Illustrator. Do you have another trick in your bag of tricks? Thank you. Grateful Kenny.
You can try this. Try opening the eps directly in Ill. Set eyedropper tool to only pick up fill (double click tool to open settings window). Use it to select one color and drag it to swatches pallette and convert to cmyk spot. Repeat as necessary. Once you have colors, try using the magic wand to pick a color and then fill
Or, In Photoshop (converted to cmyk), use magic wand to select one color. Write down the cmyk values to create a new swatch in Ill. Then create a path and export path to Illustrator. Fill the path with appropriate spot. Repeat as necessary. Reassemble the whole thing. The good part here ia that it gets you out of rasters and into vectors, lessening any resizing problems and giving crisper edges and better transparency..
Or, in cmyk Photoshop, use magic wand to select a color, and note values. Select a color with magic wand and select similar (select menu) if necessary to select non contiguous area with same color. You can use channels pallette to make that a spot channel. When you get the fill color window, create the cmyk color that you pickled up with eyedropper, Repeat as necessary. Create clipping paths for any areas that require transparency and save as eps.
Or, In Photoshop (converted to cmyk), use magic wand to select one color. Write down the cmyk values to create a new swatch in Ill. Then create a path and export path to Illustrator. Fill the path with appropriate spot. Repeat as necessary. Reassemble the whole thing. The good part here ia that it gets you out of rasters and into vectors, lessening any resizing problems and giving crisper edges and better transparency..
Or, in cmyk Photoshop, use magic wand to select a color, and note values. Select a color with magic wand and select similar (select menu) if necessary to select non contiguous area with same color. You can use channels pallette to make that a spot channel. When you get the fill color window, create the cmyk color that you pickled up with eyedropper, Repeat as necessary. Create clipping paths for any areas that require transparency and save as eps.
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