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Anonymous
January 22, 2013
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Is there a way to add breakdown levels?

  • January 22, 2013
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Dear all

Is there a way that for a spot color I can also define breakdown levels? If I have the Lab values for 100%, 75%,50%,25% and I want Ilustrator  to use this breakdown colors for interpolation.

Its like perdefine what a 50% tint of a spot color looks like.

best regards

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CarlosCanto
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CarlosCantoCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 22, 2013

I'm not sure if understood the question, if you mean how to add a tint to a spot, here's how...following on your previous post example..

newSpotColor.spot = newSpot;
newSpotColor.tint = 50;
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Anonymous
January 23, 2013

No. That's not what I want.

To use your example. this newSpotColor is 50% tint of newSpot. Illustrator will calculate what the color looks like. But I want to tell Illustrator what this 50% tint color looks like. I have the exact Lab value of what the color should look like at 50% tint and want Illustrator to use this value for internal tint interpolation calculation. So that if a user selects a 50% tint in the UI he does get a color based on my previously inserted Lab value.

klemango
klemango
Inspiring
January 25, 2013

You can use a program such as Photoshop that understands LAB color space.  Using the color picker, you can input those values into Illustrator as RGB values.  Illustrator only uses RGB and CMYK.  Also, you will need to know what color profile you need.  See here:

http://cielab.com.au/?p=85

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