silver
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- ufreq
can anybody provide me with any tips on how to create the colour silver for print work?
- F_EddyShears0
use a PMS silver. and then there are lots of different print techniques that affect the quality, ie. dry tap printing, over-printing, etc...
- ufreq0
a PMS silver? can you elaborate please.
- stewardes0
PMS 877 nice and shiny
- F_EddyShears0
The Pantone color Matching System. this is the standard for printing color. you can't mix an accurate silver in a 4-color process, so you need whats called a "spot" color. the way to choose and match a "spot" color is to use a PMS color. you will note that Adobe products have them available in the swatch libraries, for usage (these are not accurate to the screen, you need a PMS book of color chips to see the color and choose it).
Talk to your printer, they can probably help explain.
- F_EddyShears0
in refernece to stewardes' example, mind you, thats just an example... there are many silver spot colors in the PMS system, and different ones for different applications, ie. uncoated, coated, matte.
- ufreq0
thanks for the help.
- ufreq0
cant seem to find pms 877 in photoshop. is it in coated, uncoated, process or prosim collections?