Adobe illustrator convert cmyk pantone

The swatch panels are organized in ascending numerical order, going up from the inside of each book. Each swatch panel is made up of two color modes, with several lines of information beneath them.

This returns a value of C shown below , which is a very dark red color. Open your project. You will be taken to a drop-down menu. Make sure the colors you specify are limited. Select the swatch library you wish to use from the pop-up menu.

The swatch window can be colored to add it. By using the Selection Tool, you can select the color you want to convert. Then press OK to save your new color group in the Swatches panel. Now select the color palette from the Swatches panel and click on the Edit or Apply Color Group icon that appears at the bottom of the Swatches panel. Both will open the Recolor Artwork tool. In the Recolor Artwork panel, select the color group and make sure Recolor Artwork is checked. Click on the small swatch icon to open the color libraries.

Go to Color Books and select the Pantone color guide you want to use. That means that your colors are now spot colors. This was a great article! It helped me do exactly what I needed to do. Thank you for providing these steps. I finished up a t-shirt design and the printers artist asked me to make sure all the colors were PMS. I thought… Man, he should have told me ahead of time. Thanks tons for this article. After 15 minutes of flipping through my PMS book I took to the interweb.

BAM, you nailed it. Well explained and and easy to follow steps.