OUGD504 - Creative Suite Software Workshop

Illustrator workshop 23.10.13
Colour modes

• CMYK
• RGB
• CMYK for print
• RGB for screen
• K - Key - black - used to darken shadows and define images

Different ways to create swatches:

Different kinds of swatches:
Normal Swatch:

Global swatches:
When changing the colour of a global swatch it will automatically affect every piece of work using this colour. It will change the colour immediately.

When using global colours, the colour pop-out changes to choosing the tone instead of another colour.

Spot Colour

• Colour printed not using a mixture of CMYK. Colour that is printed with it's own ink.
• Spot colours can make print jobs cheaper
• Creates consistently
• Can print colours that aren't possible using CMYK - e.g. metallic & florescent
• Unique reference number - uses pigments to mix and create the colour

Click on pantone swatch to add it to the swatch list.

This colour reference only works in commercial print because the colours in Inkjet printers are made from CMYK, not spot colours.

• Halftone - makes it possible to print different tints of one colour at the same time
• Used when screen printing with tones and tints.

Saving swatches:

ASE

Enables you to open it in any adobe software program

Save this is the same project folder so it is easy to find when trying to access it on another program

Opening a swatch library:

Opening an ASE swatch library in photoshop

Photoshop Workshop 6.11.13

• To change the colour mode of an image - 'Image' Menu - 'Mode'
• There are colours that you can produce in the RGB colour mode that can't be produced with the CMYK colour mode
• Gamut - a range of reproducible colours
• RGB is the preferred mode for Photoshop

Seeing if this document is ok for print: Gamut Warning

Image adjustments:

Hue/Saturation

Proof Colours

Proof colours - shows how it will be printed but still works in RGB on screen

Proof Colours setup

Working with colour swatches

Do delete swatches: Hold alt and click on a swatch

To add a swatch: Click on the swatch palette - the foreground colour chosen will be the new swatch.

• Save swatch - for photoshop swatches
• Save swatches for exchange - swatches which can be transferred to use in Illustrator etc

Loading swatches: will add the swatches to the default palette

Replace swatches: Will replace swatch palette

Spot colour swatches

Click 'colour libraries'

To find a specific swatch, you can just type in the reference number

• A photoshop document can only support one colour mode - using a spot colour on a CMYK image isn't going to work.

Working with spot colours

Duotone:

Must be a grayscale image to turn the image into duotone

Monotone

Duotone curves:

Duotone mode is editable - you can change it at any point - changing the colour or the curves

Duotone

Changing the curves:

Tritone

Quadtone

Choosing a default

Second way of using duotone:

Using Channels

Use the paintbrush to paint on where the colour goes

Use a selection

These are all editable

Solidity

Indesign Workshop 20.11.13

New document

Creating a frame

Working with swatches:

Swatch tab

Applying a colour

Adding a new swatch

New swatch menu

Changing the swatch colour

Swatch added

Swatch applied

• All swatches are global - will change the colour of all shapes using this colour

Changing the swatch colour

Colour change applied

Tint swatches:

• Changes the tint of the selected colour

Creating a tint swatch

Tint swatch menu

Tint swatch added - shows tint percentage

Tint swatches applied

Changing the original swatch - changes tints as well

Pantone swatches:

Pantone list in swatch menu

Choosing a pantone swatch

Chosen Pantone colour

Pantone added to swatch bar

Pantone tint swatches

Difference between CMYK & Patone

Working with an image:

Duotone image:

Choosing the duotone image

The image placed

Images pantone colours automatically added to swatch bar

Spot colour:

Choosing the spot colour image 

Image placed

Pantone swatch added

Choosing illustrator spot colour file

Illustrator image placed

Separating colour:

Opening document for separation

Swatches for this document

Separations preview

Separations preview menu

Changing the view to 'separations'

Clicking the view icon to show what will be printed in which colour

Swatches which have nothing in their colour to print

Setting for print:

Go to the print menu

Print menu

Page info - tells you which colour the print will be

Changing the colour to separations to set print for halftone printing

Frequency & angles change for each colour - 40-60 frequency for screen printing

Spot colours:

Opening new document

two shapes overlapping in separate colours

'knock out' effect

Adding a black box

Black will overprint

Attributes option 

Attributes menu

Overprint fill option

Result with three colours

Shows the percentage of colour used in each section

Shows area where there is going to be too much ink

For spot varnishing:

Text will do knockout effect unless changed to overprint fill

Overprint fill applied

No knockout effect anymore when applied

Overprinting with swatch colours

Creating a mixed ink swatch

Changing the percentages to match those of the tints created

Two original colours & mixed ink swatch

Shows percentage when printing this mixed ink for colour

Shows percentage when printing this mixed ink for colour

Final Workshop 4.12.13

During this final workshop we were given an InDesign document and told there are 8 errors and problems to solve in it. We were put into groups of three to do this. I was with Charlie and Jane. We managed to find all 8 quite quickly.

The Document

1. Spot Colour

The document is only allowed to have 5 inks (CMYK and a Spot Colour), however there are 2 extra spot colours which are not being used.

2. Bleed Lines

The background colour of the first page does not extend to the Bleed Line.

3. Image Link

The image to the Illustrator File has a missing link.

4. Background Colour

The Background Colour being used is an RGB Colour Mode. The document requires CMYK as it is for print.

5. Image Size

The Image being used is the incorrect size for the size of the frame. It has been resized in InDesign to 15% of its original size therefore changing the dpi and making the file size much bigger than it should be.

6. Colour Mode

The Colour Mode for the 3rd Bird is incorrect for Print as it is using RGB. It must be CMYK.

7. Image resolution

The resolution that has been used for the image is 72dpi which is incorrect for Print.

8. Registration Inks

The amount of ink being used is over 300% so the Ink Limit has been exceeded. This is due to the designer using Registration Ink which has all ink colours within it.

After this we were given a quick talk on 'pre flighting', which is the set up checks which are done to a document before it is sent to print.