- [Instructor] Picking up from the last movie
which discussed the Recolor Artwork dialogue box,
let's see how we can convert one type of color
to another type of color.
Firstly, global colors.
So I have these green squares
and if we come to the swatches panel,
they are not referenced on the swatches panel.
So I can't reuse them consistently.
To add them to the swatches panel,
just drag down to a vacant space.
But then, so that we can edit the color
and have the color update wherever it is used,
I'm going to convert the color to a global color,
just by checking this box.
I'll now come and select the two squares
and apply the global color to it.
Global colors are indicated by the triangle
in their bottom right hand corner.
This means that I can now edit the color,
without having the artwork selected,
and whatever change I make, when I turn on my preview,
you can see will update in place.
this is pretty straight forward.
We just select the color
and then we can come to the color panel.
We see that in this case it's Pantone Reflex Blue,
as spot color, we just have a tint slider.
We can apply it in tints of zero to 100.
But if I need to know it's CMYK breakdown,
then all I need do is come and switch to my CMYK sliders.
That is the CMYK breakdown.
And then so that I can reuse that,
I can come a drag the color onto my swatches panel.
Going in the other direction, if we have a color
that has been specified as CMYK
and we need to find its closest equivalent as a spot color,
then we can use the Recolor Artwork dialogue.
So I'll come and click on Recolor Artwork
and then down here, bottom right,
if I hover over this menu the tool tip tells me,
limits the color group to colors in a swatch library.
I'll choose that and then come to color books and,
in this case, I want to use a Pantone color.
So I'm going to choose Pantone Solid Coated.
My base color up here now switches
to the icon of a spot color.
in it's bottom right hand corner.
I can click okay.
If we hover over that color on the color panel,
we see that it is Pantone 179
we see that we can now apply this in tints of zero to 100.
When you do this, there may be a shift in color.
I just chose a process color that can be closely matched.