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Hi all! I am trying to make a tint of a color (ex: 70% of a specific blue color). I haven't had to do this in awhile, so the directions I'd saved were no longer current. I did some reasearch, and watched some youtube videos. But... the process doesn't seem to always work.
I select the color I want a tint of. I make sure that color has the "global" checkbox checked in the New Swatch window. I open the Properties panel. I make sure my object I want to change is selected. I click the "Fill" box in the Properties panel. Then I click on the "Color Mixer" tab. Theortetically, the tint slider should appear. And once in awhile it does. But more often, I just get the RGB sliders. No tint slider to be found. I feel like I'm playing rouletette... sometimes my number comes up and sometimes it doesn't. What can I do to be sure that the tint slider shows up every time?
Thanks!
PS This is a LOT of steps to just get a tint. In my opinion, it should be as easy as changing the transparency. I'm surprised it's not!
DigitalChickster,
"it should be as easy as changing the transparency. I'm surprised it's not!"
How about this?
1) Set the Opacity to 70%,
2) Flatten Transparency.
You can have a solid white background in 1), and you can move a copy, maybe retaining an overlap, and apply 2) to that for comparison.
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You will get the Tint sliders if you are working with a Spot Color. Otherwise, you will get the sliders that corospond to your document's color mode.
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Oh! OK. I didn't get that distinction in the tutorials I was seeing. Thanks!
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Actually tint sliders will show under the color window on process as well spot colors... Once you convert a swatch to a Global color the tiny slider will show. You will see the color mixer if you are selecting grouped objects though - simply go to the individual color to adjust the tint.
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If I create a color in the Color panel and choose to create a Global Swatch from it, the Color Panel shows a percentage slider to select a tint percentage.
The Color Guide panel shows swatches with percentages of that global color.
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DigitalChickster,
"it should be as easy as changing the transparency. I'm surprised it's not!"
How about this?
1) Set the Opacity to 70%,
2) Flatten Transparency.
You can have a solid white background in 1), and you can move a copy, maybe retaining an overlap, and apply 2) to that for comparison.
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YES! That's it! That works great. THANK YOU SO MUCH! And it's much quicker than the way I was trying to do it.
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For my part you are welcome, DigitalChickster.