From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Cautions about blending modes
From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Cautions about blending modes
- [Instructor] In this video, I'm going to show you that Illustrator doesn't always tell you the truth about how your content is going to print. And this really has to do with blending modes and spot color content. So in the three art boards here, in the first little art board, I'm showing you how that content looks in normal blending mode, and that just means that everything's opaque, things to sit on top of each other. In the spot color art board all the content is spot color. In the process color art board, well, everything's just CMYK. And right now, if you look at the spot color content versus process, they look the same, don't they? But this isn't how the spot color content is going to image and print. Let me show you what I mean. I'll go up to View, and I'm going to memorize the keyboard shortcut for Overprint Preview. On Windows, it's alt + shift + control + y. On the Mac, it's command + option + shift…
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