Hi buddies,
Is it possible to mix a percentage of one of the cmyk inks into a pantone color? I know it can be done with bitmaps into a raster editor like PP or PS but just wondering how it can be done with simple vectors, my current workaround is to make an extra shape over a pantone color and fill it and overprint that. but that doesn't always work on complex things like this in the attached image. In the image below I want to add some percentage of Black over the Pantone Orange.
If memory serves Corel prohibited that feature in the past to keep the user from creating what they thought was a spot color graphic that would onlyseperate as CMYK. In the pqantone palette there are the base pigments that you can use and that will seperate as proper spot color.
David Milisock said:In the pantone palette there are the base pigments that you can use and that will seperate as proper spot color.
Hi D,
I can't understand that line. Can u please explain it in lil more detail please...... what are base pigments. In the above image I just want some black over the Pantone Orange in the extrude..
The Pantone coated and uncoated palette have process cyan, process magenta, process black and process yellow built into the palette. Just use them.
Bitmaps allows to use "doutone", but vectors don't work in the same way. You can't mix a Pantone color with a CMYK in the same point. If you have a Pantone color (Pantone 286 C for example) if you add a 10% of Pantone Black of 10% of CMYK black, the color will change, and will no longer the 286 C. The only way is to overprint another object.
Ariel said:the color will change
Hi Ariel, I actually won't mind that, atleast the base pantone color would remain the same, doesn't matter if slight % of black changes it's shade a little.
Ariel said:The only way is to overprint another object.
Yeah this is what I've been doing, but doesn't seem practical on every thing, like in the the extrude of the image attached at the top.
Aleem Ashraf said:Hi Ariel, I actually won't mind that, atleast the base pantone color would remain the same, doesn't matter if slight % of black changes it's shade a little.
Sorry, but Pantone does not allows to change values. You can't add another tint, because the number of Pantone will change or it converts to CMYK. What you can do is to use a % of the Pantone, for example, 40% of Pantone 286 C