How to preview seps in Illustrator?

[Mr Tees!!]

...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.

...Thanks!!

[Denis Kolar]

Last one on this pick, about 2/3 down in real when you open the window pane.

[Mr Tees!!]

..okay great THANKS!!!

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

[kirkage]

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

[Sbrem]

we make our White a spot color...

Steve

[JBLUE]

Ben at www.risingsungraphics.com has a pretty cool Illustrator sep tut that should help you out.