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In the old days of film, if you wanted to print 2 metallic inks as a gradient, you would make a piece of film with the single gradient, dupe the film, reverse and pinch or spread the copy. Now you have a trapped reverse for the second ink.
I photoshop, you can build a gradient, bitmap it at 2540 dpi, 175lpi then colorize it in Quark/Indesign/Illustrator and place it on top of a solid 2nd box.
Can we achieve the same effect with plain ‘ole gradients in Illustrator? Our customer created a bunch of 2 spot gradients, dif sizes, in serveral documents for bussiness cards, letterheads, etc.
Any suggestions on how to handle these in Illustrator without having to build the gradients in Photoshop as described above?
If you copy their current gradient, stacking them, then making the bottom one just one gradient composed of 100% PMS1 to 1% PMS1. The top one would go from 1%PMS2 to 100%PMS2 gradiating the opposite direction.
Multiplying the two boxes won’t give you a trapped reverse. None of the Transparency setting seemed to work.
Any thoughts?
I photoshop, you can build a gradient, bitmap it at 2540 dpi, 175lpi then colorize it in Quark/Indesign/Illustrator and place it on top of a solid 2nd box.
Can we achieve the same effect with plain ‘ole gradients in Illustrator? Our customer created a bunch of 2 spot gradients, dif sizes, in serveral documents for bussiness cards, letterheads, etc.
Any suggestions on how to handle these in Illustrator without having to build the gradients in Photoshop as described above?
If you copy their current gradient, stacking them, then making the bottom one just one gradient composed of 100% PMS1 to 1% PMS1. The top one would go from 1%PMS2 to 100%PMS2 gradiating the opposite direction.
Multiplying the two boxes won’t give you a trapped reverse. None of the Transparency setting seemed to work.
Any thoughts?
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