Software Induction...

This is the first Induction of the second year, taught by Mike

Software: Adobe Illustrator

This first section is about processed colour.

When creating a new document there is an option named under the advanced section, these two options are CMYK (print) and RGB (screen) 

CMYK can sometimes be named as 'process' when it comes to digital. 

The next thing we are going to look at is the different ways in which we can add colour to our artwork, These are the following...

select the area in which you want to fill, then you double click the colour pallet from the side, then the colour selector will come up and this will then let you pick the colour and other such options.

if you go to the right top pallet looking icon on the right hand side, there is a CMYK slider bar options, this then allows you to create the colour you want, this could be very useful if you are to have a pantone book in front of you. 

We will now create our own colour pallet.

First we need to delete all the default swatches that in that colour pallet, if you click the drop down which is next to the top right area again of the window you have now ... you then click select all un-used colour patches. then click the recycling bin so that you can just delete them all. 

You should be left with four swatches.. Black, White, No fill and registration. 

(registration is just used for trim marks, these are so that you can get prints perfect each time if your doing screen printing, but this can also be used the same way if you are to cut the same image by hand numerous times, this is the make sure way that they get cut right each time)

To create a new swatch you can then click on the top right palette again then you click the drop down, make sure its on CMYK or which ever print process you are doing then on the drop down bar which again is in the top right area there is a section which you can then just click, create a new swatch. 

This second section is about Spot colour.

a spot colour is classed as a single colour, the main purpose for single spot colour is when you look at it being applied to a image or something which then only has the one basis colour, then you will only use tones of this colour, this makes it a very different style and a very strong outlook. 

colours which cant be used as CMYK so things such as metallic coloured ink and things such as this can then be turned into spot colour, this makes it a big chance when it comes down to the final design.