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Convert process colors to Pantone colors

Convert process colors to Pantone colors - Illustrator Tutorial

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Convert process colors to Pantone colors

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- [Instructor] Recolor Art makes it super easy to convert process color mixes to Pantone swatches. With Illustrator there's no need to pull out a Pantone swatch book and spend your valuable time searching through color patches to find that best color match. Illustrator Recolor Art can do this for you. If you are recoloring solid color swatches the process is really straightforward and quick, but if your art contains swatch tints the options for recoloring the art depend on how you choose to handle those tints. I've colored this art with these five global color swatches here. Everything that we see in this artwork is colored with one of these. If I select the red color here we'll see that it's a global CMYK process mix. And if I select this lighter red back here, we see that it's a 30% tint of that red. So let's go into Recolor Art and see how this works when we convert it to Pantone. I'm going to do a Command A or a Control A to select the art. Open the Recolor Artwork panel and the…

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