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screen printing => Separations => Topic started by: Mr Tees!! on April 09, 2014, 12:53:40 PM

Title: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
Post by: Mr Tees!! on April 09, 2014, 12:53:40 PM

...hey gang! Im finally working on getting my feet wet in Illy, doing color-replacements, separations and stuff.....but is there any way I can preview seps in Illustrator, like I can in Corel? A friend mentioned that there may be a plugin or something? I can see me wasting a LOT of film here without some way of checking it, until I get comfortable.

...Thanks!!

Title: Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
Post by: Denis Kolar on April 09, 2014, 12:58:17 PM

Last one on this pick, about 2/3 down in real when you open the window pane.

Title: Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
Post by: Mr Tees!! on April 09, 2014, 01:18:51 PM

..okay great THANKS!!!

....any tricks to previewing white? It turns the background to white when previewing, so...

Title: Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
Post by: kirkage on April 09, 2014, 01:28:34 PM

change the artboard color using the method in the link or I make a square of "shirt color" and place it behind the design and leave it "on" during the preview. Another method is to tweak your white to be a light blue or pink just for checking seps

http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/Illustrator/2054/Changing.the.Artboard.Color.Adobe.Illustrator.Tutorial.aspx (http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/Illustrator/2054/Changing.the.Artboard.Color.Adobe.Illustrator.Tutorial.aspx)

Title: Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
Post by: Sbrem on April 09, 2014, 04:19:51 PM

we make our White a spot color...

Steve

Title: Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
Post by: JBLUE on April 09, 2014, 04:50:59 PM

Ben at www.risingsungraphics.com (http://www.risingsungraphics.com) has a pretty cool Illustrator sep tut that should help you out.