I hope I've put this in the right forum. I debated slapping it into Color Management, but it's specific to the Adobe toolset.
I've been designing for quite a while, but strictly only in a web-design capacity. I'm now slowly moving over to the world of print. I have a vector image created that contains two base colours and then a gradient (which makes use of those two colours). I've been asked to supply this vector image with the necessary Pantone equivalent colours. A bit of Googling gave me a relatively simple solution whereby I use Photoshop's colour picker and then click the Color Libraries button for a rough match.
I'm sure this isn't the best way to go about things. I've read lots about Pantone colour books, but don't really consider them an option as my print work is extremely limited and I understand they're relatively expensive.
My questions are as follows:
1) Using Adobe Illustrator, how would you guys suggest getting accurate Pantone equivalents for my CMYK colours?
2) How should I go about handling the images two-tone gradient? Should I just supply the start and end colour values?
Thanks!
I've been designing for quite a while, but strictly only in a web-design capacity. I'm now slowly moving over to the world of print. I have a vector image created that contains two base colours and then a gradient (which makes use of those two colours). I've been asked to supply this vector image with the necessary Pantone equivalent colours. A bit of Googling gave me a relatively simple solution whereby I use Photoshop's colour picker and then click the Color Libraries button for a rough match.
I'm sure this isn't the best way to go about things. I've read lots about Pantone colour books, but don't really consider them an option as my print work is extremely limited and I understand they're relatively expensive.
My questions are as follows:
1) Using Adobe Illustrator, how would you guys suggest getting accurate Pantone equivalents for my CMYK colours?
2) How should I go about handling the images two-tone gradient? Should I just supply the start and end colour values?
Thanks!