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Mixed ink swatches

Mixed ink swatches - InDesign Tutorial

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Mixed ink swatches

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- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to play around with Pantone colors. Now Pantone colors are still being used on a daily basis but they come with certain limitations. And the main limitation is that you can only apply that specific Pantone color or maybe a 10th of that Pantone color, but nothing else. In this chapter, I'm going to teach you how to take a business card that is perfectly black like this one here and turn it into something that's a lot more creative only by adding two Pantone colors. And then by creating something called a mixed ink group which will take those two Pantone colors and nothing else, and blend them together to create over a hundred different unique Pantone combinations only using two color separations. So with this, you'll have the ability to have a lot more freedom when applying colors. And on top of that, if we do go ahead and check out the color separations you'll see that the only colors…

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