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Reproducing Stickers From A Scan
macmark:
No just use a spot colour for the grainy gold bit and tell the printer what colour you want to go in there from his pantone book. Pantone colours in Illustrator won't show the grain detail on screen. When he comes to print it he will substitute the correct ink for whatever colour you have used in the artwork. It's best you go along to the printer and look through the pantone book with him to make sure it is the colour and effect you want. I'd suggest you make 2 spot colours in Illustrator (with a name of your choice - i.e. decal red & decal gold). That way when the printer gets ready to print he can either easily alter your file and put the pantone colours you chose in or just run the job as it is and use whatever colour ink you've chosen as the red and the gold. Most printers have to do this anyway so it shouldn't be a problem. As long as you've got 2 pantone references for the colours you want everything should be fine.
I've worked both sides of the fence, designer and printer, so I've seen most of the common mistakes. If you need any more help let me know. ;)
Mark
Dr Skyway:
Guys any tips for a novice???
Trying to clean up some images and dont know where to start.
Any good websites?
Cheers
macmark:
--- Quote from: Dr Skyway on December 15, 2006, 05:55 PM ---Guys any tips for a novice???
Trying to clean up some images and dont know where to start.
Any good websites?
Cheers
--- End quote ---
The best thing to do is get a copy of Illustrator and redraw the logo from a scan. As for learning Illustrator that's a whole different kettle of fish. I can't really think of any websites off hand that will walk you through the basics but your local library might have some books that will help. It's a funny thing learning Illustrator and getting used to vector graphics especially if you're used to bitmap editing in something like photoshop.
If you can get a copy of Illustrator, try going to the Help menu > Illustrator Help and looking under the tutorials section.
Mark
diesel:
Yup - What Mark said!
makes perfect sense - to make any colour a 'spot colour' - drag the colour from the box in your mixing pallet into the swatch pallet then double click on it and Re-name it, sellect spot colour from the drop down menu - there you go.
Just shout if you need anything.
By the way your work looks good! :daumenhoch:
macmark:
Yeah I forgot to say that, your artwork does look very clean!
Good work fella!
Mark
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