- [Instructor] Here I'd like to show you
how we can take a logo that is created using transparency
and make a version of it
that can be reproduced with a single color
and tints of that color.
I say a single color,
the finished logo is going print in two colors
but one of those colors is the black
of the type.
The green of the symbol needs
to be reproduced in a single color
and tints of that color.
Let's just take a look at this artwork.
If I select it, we can see that the effect
is created by using color burn.
But to print this, we would need to print it using CMYK
but we don't have that option,
so that's why we're doing what we are doing.
I'm going to start by selecting the symbol
and making a copy of it.
And then I'm going to rasterize this.
Convert it to pixels.
Having converted it to pixels,
I'm now going to convert it back to vectors
by choosing Create Object Mosaic.
I'm going to create a mosaic of five by five tiles.
So, that gives us a map
of the different colors if you like
and I can now
with this selected artwork create a color group.
So, coming to my switches panel,
bottom of the swatches panel I'll click
on New Color Group
making the new color group from the selected artwork.
I now have a color group made up of five colors.
We don't need white.
We can throw that away
and we have two greens that are very similar,
so I'll throw one of those away
leaving us with three greens
that correspond to the three different tints of green
that we have in the artwork.
So, now working on this, the top copy
will leave the bottom copy as our control.
I am going to convert this to a live paint group
and apply these three different greens
to the resulting segments.
Let's just zoom in a little bit closer.
When I choose my live paint bucket
and click, we get this warning message saying
that amongst other things,
transparency is not going to work with a live paint group.
That's okay, we'll click OK
and then I'll choose my darker green
and referring to the version below,
I'll now just fill in the segments
with the appropriate color.
Now I need to expand this.
Come to the Object menu and choose Expand.
It's at this point that we can go
to recolor artwork
and map these colors to our single color
and seems like I've got four colors,
I was expecting three but that's okay.
Let's see if we can work with this.
All of these colors need to be converted
to this darker green.
We need some scalability,
so we want the darkest color
from which we can scale down to tints.
So, I'm going to drag them one by one
onto that color
and here if I click on this dropdown
to the right of the new color column,
we see that we are scaling tints
which in this case is exactly what we want to do.
The one color that we are mapping all
of these colors to
is currently still a process color
and we need to change that to a spot color.
So, I'm going to come to my Color Books,
Pantone Solid Coated
and we see that we now have spot colors.
I'll click OK.
Click away from the artwork and let's just see
what we have here, so if I click in here,
we have Pantone 354
and that's Pantone 354 at 100%.
That's Pantone 354 at 69%
and that's Pantone 354 at 48%.
You can see that obviously we have shifted the colors
but the relationship between them is maintained
and crucially we are now able to print this
as a single spot color.