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Quick Question about Pantone Colours
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A while back I did some shots for a family friend who is running for local election. He used the shots on his brochures etc.
He got a letter the other day about getting one of the pictures put on the actual ballot paper. They are very specific about what they are looking for.
One of the criteria is that the background of the photograph for the ballot paper should be “Pantone 341 at 10%”. I’ve found Pantone 341, but I’m not sure what “At 10%” means. Can anyone shed any light on the subject? They provide examples and the actual 341 colour is significantly darker than the backgrounds in these examples, so I’d imagine its 10% opacity or whatever, but I just can’t fathom for the life of me what they exactly mean or why they just didn’t choose a full colour of a lighter shade.
I’d appreciate any answers.
thanks,
Jody
10% halftone screen-
the colour represented by allowing 90% of the paper to show as background to the dot pattern printed-That’s always been my interpretation of it,
but it’s been a while, could stand to be corrected…jb7 wrote:
10% halftone screen-
the colour represented by allowing 90% of the paper to show as background to the dot pattern printed-
.whooosh! :) Straight over my head
Hi Jody,
I’m not sure this can be done directly in Photoshop. In my days as a graphic designer I would regularly use percentages of pantone colours but I would have been using the likes of Adobe Illustrator or Quark Xpress (I’m sure this can be done in InDesign as well) where you can make a pantone spot colour and then choose a percentage output of it.
Generally I’d create a path around my subject (look at paths beside the layers tab), save the file as an EPS with this path as a clipping path and then import it into one of the above programmes and place it against the pantone colour of my choice.
Another way is create the tint of the pantone in Illustrator and open it in Photoshop (make sure both Illustrator and Photoshop are using CMYK mode or the colours will shift slightly), sample this colour and fill the background with the new colour. Either way you will have to do a cutout of the candidate to place against the coloured background.
If you need any more help or clarification just give me a shout on 087 259 9785,
cheers
Dave
Dave,
I tinkered with Illustrator and think I got the right colour out to photoshop for the pic. Thanks a lot for your detailed help. It’s appreciated.
Jody
Good stuff Jody. If you want to email me a low res I can check it for you,
Dave
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