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- Hello, and welcome to this video.
Gareth here, from TastyTuts.com.
In this video, I'm going to demonstrate
a quick way you can convert C-M-Y-K
and R-G-B color swatches
into Pantone swatches into Adobe illustrator.
So, I have this poster design here in Illustrator,
and I have a couple of colored boxes up to the right
in the paste board area.
Now, these are representing the colors
that make up the artwork
in the poster to the left.
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you can download this for free.
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So, I have focused on getting all
the creative positioning right.
I have just finished the poster,
and, now I realized that I completely overlooked
the color swatches I used.
A mistake I make quite a lot,
when focusing on the creative side of things.
Now, I need to print this poster in Pantone,
but currently all the colors are in C-M-Y-K.
Now, it's actually really easy to convert your C-M-Y-K
or R-G-B artwork, into Pantone artwork.
To, to demonstrate this, I'm gonna come over
to the squares here,
click and drag to select them all,
copy and paste to make a new copy.
So, in Illustrator, to convert the color,
all you have to do is select the color you want to change.
In this instance, I'm going to come select
the colors on the right here.
Now, as I click through these,
we can see the swatches panel,
the matching color swatches are becoming highlighted.
So, I'll select the top color box.
Now, if I put my mouse cursor over the selected swatch,
in the swatches panel,
we can see it's currently a C-M-Y-K color.
As we can see, the C-M-Y-K color values appearing
on mouse over.
So, with this color selected,
I can come up to edit, scroll down to edit colors,
come across and click re-color artwork.
Upon click, up will pop a menu,
and here we can see the color
we have currently selected.
Next, I need to click on this small button here,
down towards the middle of the menu.
Upon click, this will pull up a list.
And, from here, I'm going to place
my mouse over Color Books.
Now, you can choose whichever color format you wish
to convert the sample to but in
this instance I'm going to scroll down
and choose Pantone Solid Coated,
then click ok.
Upon click, Illustrator has now converted
the selected color into the nearest Pantone reference.
And, if we look over in the swatches panel,
we will now see the new color swatch
appear and become selected.
If I move my mouse cursor over the new swatch,
we will see the Pantone reference.
Also, we can see this little dot
in the bottom right corner,
indicating this is a Pantone spot color.
Now keep in mind, when Illustrator converts a C-M-Y-K
or R-G-B color, it will convert it
to the nearest reference.
In this instance, it looks very close.
But can sometimes vary a little.
So, I use the same technique on the rest
of the color boxes,
and, soon, I will have my new Pantone colors
in the swatches panel.
Easy.
So, zooming in to the colored boxes,
on the left we have the original C-M-Y-K samples,
and on the right, we have the new Pantone samples.
And, they're looking pretty close.
So, Illustrator has done a good job
of converting those colors for us.
Now, it's just a case of selecting all
the color elements in my poster design,
and making sure the Pantone colors are applied.
Once all of the colors are Pantone,
it will be ready to be printed in Pantone.
Easy.
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