#lol i literally chose the photo in the digital file with the idea that i could easily reduce it down to the spots being used | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

queen-mabs-revenge · 10 months

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i set up a photo in an artwork using the spot pantones that i'm using in the rest of the artwork for flexo printing, just to avoid having to buy cmyk plates in addition to the spots, and the plate makers rang me like 'um....what?' cause apparently that's very much freak behaviour? idk it just made sense to me to make the image up out of the spots instead of cmyk? lmao but apparently they were really intrigued, but they've never seen that before so bohhh

i said lmao this is what you get when you get a self-taught weirdo setting up your graphics

#lol i literally chose the photo in the digital file with the idea that i could easily reduce it down to the spots being used #for the bg and text with an extra one thrown in #so yeah 4 plates - pantone yellow 012. 470. 375. and 301 #the 375 is for a recycle sign and i'm gutted the 012 and 301 can't mix to make it but too much m in the 301 #and then a yellow coffee cup with tan foam on a brown table #301 gives more depth to the shadows on the wood grain of the table #470 is a nice warm brown so it works for the coffee and most of the table #cup uses 012 and 470 as a bit of shadowing #foam is all shades of 470 knocked back to 65%#i think i'm very fucking clever tyvm

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