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Overprint view - Illustrator Tutorial

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Overprint view

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- [Man] In this movie we're going to explore some of the use of overprinting with spot colors and tints of spot colors on this screen printing project. So in the layers here, I've got three layers, each of which has the name of the ink being used and what is a good idea when you're working with files like this, once you've established those colors, is to clean out anything unnecessary in your swatches panel. That's actually really easy to do and you achieve it by going to the panel fly out at the top right of the panel, and then choosing select all unused. They're then all selected and all you need to do is to click the trash can at the bottom of the panel and all of those colors are removed. Much easier to work with. So first of all what I am going to do here. If I just go into outline preview just for a second, you'll see there's actually several concentric shapes just here and I'm going to apply a tint of our pantone colors here to those concentric circles. So if I pick up the…

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