Pantone + Illustrator
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- morphinelips
My background is not in graphic design, but I find myself doing some print design for people. But I have a simple question, how do I set up pantone colors in illustrator? Do I simply find their corresponding CMYK values?
Thanks alot..
- morphinelips0
crap, i don't have pantone under my swatch libraries... anyone know why it doesn't appear for me?
- mayo0
you can get them in your Library Swatches
- mayo0
sorry, we posted at the same time. did you reset your swatch library?
- jking760
ditto
bitch to type in the CMYK matching values, try your the library.
- morphinelips0
I don't think I reset it, but I may have by mistake, I dunno.
Is it possible to just type in CMYK values?
- mayo0
if you know them. break out your PMS conversion book thingy
- morphinelips0
I don't have such a book :( I'm a web designer and am just doing a few print projects, this one is a book cover.
I can find the pantone swatches in Photoshop, if I just copy the hex value over to Illustrator, will that work?
Thanks alot man..
- mayo0
i guess it should...
when did i become a man?!?!
;)
- fuckfascists0
if you got them pantone printed, id imagine they would need the pantone number.
im guessing youre on a mac, this may help...
- morphinelips0
sorry mayo, i should have checked before assigning you man status!
FF - I'm actually on a PC... (like I say, my background is not graphic design but actually more the development side of things)
- fuckfascists0
sorry, i only assumed because most people are on macs here... i use a pc tho
just do a search on the adobe site. they have it there