Pantone Gradient
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- Claymantis
Is it possible to do gradients with pantones?
I have a blue bar that is a pantone but I need the edges to have a darker blue gradient.
Would I use a dark gradient pantone to do that?That would cost more to do right?
Can anyone help me out... thanks!
- Claymantis0
http://www.imgupload.org/view.ph…
That blue background needs to be pantone. Is that possible with all those gradients?
- monospaced0
You can pull it off with a duotone, spot blue and black.
- black for the darker areas around the edges, solid blue overall.monospaced
- Claymantis0
There is also a fine highlight that runs through the middle. Would I just do a white with an opacity?
- no, that's where no ink goes...dude? really?monospaced
- How do you set up your file for less ink in the middle? If the colour is a soil pantone?Claymantis
- just add white, dudemonospaced
- Knuckleberry0
why not just do a solid blue pantone background then a black halftone over the top?
- I'm not sure how to do that!
How do you do a black halftone?
And what about the white highlight?Claymantis - email me i will lay out the steps for youKnuckleberry
- I'm not sure how to do that!
- jaylarson0
isn't that what the .dsc format is for?
- monospaced0
^ that's what I said
Claymantis, you need to learn about how printing works. If you're working offset, everything is converted to a line screen, so everything is essentially a halftone, no matter what (unless it's solid color).
- Claymantis0
Ok so I just set the background to the pantone blue and use black for the gradients. Then the colours area automatically covered into halftones.
- don't forget the overprinting ... use Google for helpmonospaced
- Claymantis0
Ahh thanks monospace.
- Claymantis0
The Pantone is 2955 is the a solid uncoated pantone?
- inkpink0
why are you doing this with pantones?
- There's a ton of reasons to do this with spot colors.duckofrubber
- looks like a cmyk job to me.inkpink
- CyBrain0
When I use to do print in the 90s, I used to work in two process colors. I would use black and cyan for example and just used gradients with those two colors the way I wanted. Just make a note to the printer what PMS numbers you want. Black = PMS##, Cyan = PMS##. But it's been more than 10 years. Maybe there's a better way.
- definitely a better way, but yes, a printer can map the colors to spotbriareos