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Pantone colors - Exporting from Illustrator to Photoshop

Jan 25, 2012 1:41 PM

Tags: #illustrator #photoshop #problem #color #exporting #channels #logo #pantone

Is it possible to export a logo in illustrator to a photoshop file, while still preserving the original pantone colors of the logo?

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Jan 27, 2012 10:44 AM in reply to KaylaBill

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That's a good question. But, no. Photoshop will open the file as a CMYK file conversion. What should happen is Photoshop honors the Spot Color channels established in Ai; in that scenarion you'd get your typical CMYK color channels and then additional color channels for the Spot Colors. That's too much work for a software application. But, I have to be honest. I've never Exported a Spot Color file out of Ai and into PS. I'm thinking you have to do it manually, perhaps creating a file for each Pantone color and then adding them into PS as additional Spot channels.

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