Two colour gradient?
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- Projectile
I want to make something along these lines. A gradient going from one colour to the other.
Printer says there might be a way but even having one flat pantone and another with a gradient mask won't really work.. it just converts to CMYK to make the middle colours
Just wondering if there's a way. if not I suppose I'll just try convince them to go 5-colour..
- bored2death0
why are you wanting to use spot colors?
- Ranger0
Why would it convert to CMYK to get that effect?
- chris_himself0
duotone?
- inkpink0
eh? just drop your 2 spot swatches into the gradient bar?
- inkpink0
or if you wanna get trick, lay down a flood of the lighter green, with a gradient of dark green to white ontop with overprint selected.
little more risky though. depends on your green values. you'd def want to be in good communication with printer.
- dark green grad ontop might also wanna be 75% tint (or so) to white.inkpink
- Also a great way to achieve this.duckofrubber
- Projectile0
@inkpink.. have any of you actually tried this? I can definitely output a file that looks great and has only two spot colours.. but I got the impression from mr printer man that it's the actual printing process that turns it 4 colour.
Did I get the wrong impression/he's an idiot? if you've succeeded in doing this pls let me know
- yes absolutely have done both... printer sounds like he's being lazy or doesn't understand softwareinkpink
- unless you're setting up file wrong... what are you using?inkpink
- illustrator. cool thanks.Projectile
- unless you're setting up the file wrong... what are you using?inkpink
- stalling notesinkpink
- inkpink0
maybe also try two 1 color grads ontop of each other.
each 1 color grad is a 100% to 1% tint, in opposite directions.
darker color ontop, attribute overprint.
might be the spot 100% to (0,0,0,0) grad which is resulting in cmyk
- Projectile0
- inner glow = originalProjectile
- huh? absolutely no transparency or effects with spot color jobs... this will convert to cmykinkpink
- gramme0
Yes, you can screen spot colors. I've done it before. You can't do it with metallic inks, though. However, I once designed a brochure with one spread that was printed in PMS black and silver, and I wanted some areas of the black to grade off into silver. So they printed the silver plate first, and then screened the black. The end result looked great, although it took the printer some figuring to arrive at a solution.
Whatever you do though, use a gradient rather than overlapping transparency effects. The printer might have to tweak your files to make everything look right, but it's their job to know how to handle that.
- monNom0
Use a raster image. create black and white in photoshop, convert to duotone, adjust curves to get the right falloff, then bring into illustrator.
- inkpink0
judging by the last posted examples, i think the problem was Projectile was trying to use transparency with spot colors... in which case the printer was correct re. cmyk conversion.
- DeSiard0
Do you have to use spot colors? You'll never get a clean gradient going from one spot color to another spot color. There will be a nasty hazy white middle ground. (unless you overprint one on top of the other, but then your colors probably won't be right.)
- Kiggen0
Another nice reason to stay OFF the gradients in an identity.