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Offline Mr Tees!!

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How to preview seps in Illustrator?
« on: April 09, 2014, 12:53:40 PM »
...hey gang! Im finally working on getting my feet wet in Illy, doing color-replacements, separations and stuff.....but is there any way I can preview seps in Illustrator, like I can in Corel? A friend mentioned that there may be a plugin or something? I can see me wasting a LOT of film here without some way of checking it, until I get comfortable.

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Offline Denis Kolar

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Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2014, 12:58:17 PM »
Last one on this pick, about 2/3 down in real when you open the window pane.

Offline Mr Tees!!

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Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2014, 01:18:51 PM »
..okay great THANKS!!!

....any tricks to previewing white? It turns the background to white when previewing, so...
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Offline kirkage

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Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2014, 01:28:34 PM »
change the artboard color using the method in the link or I make a square of "shirt color" and place it behind the design and leave it "on" during the preview. Another method is to tweak your white to be a light blue or pink just for checking seps

http://designertoday.com/Tutorials/Illustrator/2054/Changing.the.Artboard.Color.Adobe.Illustrator.Tutorial.aspx

Offline Sbrem

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Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2014, 04:19:51 PM »
we make our White a spot color...

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Re: How to preview seps in Illustrator?
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2014, 04:50:59 PM »
Ben at www.risingsungraphics.com has a pretty cool Illustrator sep tut that should help you out.
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