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Here.
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We'll learn how we can define spot
colour within Invent
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and transfer them
for use in our MegaEdit products.
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As we shall see, spot
colours can be defined in various locations
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within Invent,
including as part of a colour resource set
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as a default colour for a colour,
a variable,
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a specified colour for a field, property
and various other locations.
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These colour are exported
as part of the MEX file, resulting in one
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or more spot colour categories being created
and utilized within MegaEdit.
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In this tutorial
we'll see examples of where we can apply
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and utilize the spot colour.
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So we're going to begin
with a basic preconfigured Invent template.
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And what we're going to start off with
if we go to the resources section
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is a predefined colour resource set.
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So I'm just going to edit
that just to show its additional details.
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Now a
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resource, a colour resource set
has been created containing two colours.
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In this case
the Navy colour that we've got here
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has been defined as a spot colour.
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So if we go to the edit button
and then change color
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and you'll see the same control
if you just adding a new color up here,
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you'll see that when you're specifying
the RGB value of the colour underneath
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there you'll also have the ability
to enable it as a spot.
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colour and then to define a name for that
particular spot.
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colour.
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Contrary to that,
the blue color is not a spot color.
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So if I go to edit this one and follow
the same process, you'll see that spot.
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colour
is not enabled for this particular color.
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Okay.
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Next, along in our predefined template
here, we've got two variables
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that have also been created.
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One of these variables links directly
to the spot colours and that's spot
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closed from all sources as we'll discuss
as we go through this tutorial.
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While the second one is linking to colours
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only from our defined color resource set,
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and this is just for comparative purposes.
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So these are both colour variables.
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So I created if I go to add variable
and then you'll see
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we have a variable
we can use as one of the options.
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If I just go in there
and edit one about the variable
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so the spots colours
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you'll see that the way
I've actually linked this in our mode,
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we have the option between RGB, CMYK
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we can went directly to a resource set
if we want to,
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but we also have the ability
to just directly linked to spot.
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So any spot color
that's been defined anywhere within
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our file will be included
in that particular variable.
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But then for comparative purposes,
we've also got this all colours variable.
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So if I just go and edit that one,
you'll see that this one is
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instead
linked to one of our resource sets.
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So it's call color resource set,
which is when we just created
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a few moments ago
where we just have to call as specified,
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one of which is a spot color,
one of which isn't.
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But in this case
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it doesn't matter because we're just using
the entire resource set.
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Now moving on to the
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properties of some of our fields
that we have in our artwork.
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So I start off with this one that
I was able to spot and go into properties.
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So field properties are another example
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of locations
where Spot colours can be defined.
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So in this particular example, we've set
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a static color
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to the text color property,
but we've also saved that color as a spot
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using the same methodology
as we did during the previous process.
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So you see, I've selected a color
or input an RGB value,
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but again,
I've selected this as a spot cover.
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In this particular example,
the background field
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has also been linked
to the spot colours variable.
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So what that should do in this case,
just for context,
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is when we actually take this to MegaEdit,
we should be able to choose
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between available spot colours in our form
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and then the background of that particular
field would change to that spot color.
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So for comparative purposes,
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the second field is being linked
to a static color in terms of the text,
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but that static color has not been defined
as a spot color.
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Then the background of that comparative
field
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has been linked to our all colors
variable.
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Now remember that
in turn links to our color resource set,
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which has two colors contained within it.
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At this point
we would go ahead and export the template
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and upload it to MegaEdit
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In our case, that's been done prior
to the recording of this tutorial,
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so I'll just load up
that particular browser.
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So the first thing I've done
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is navigated to my MegaEdit
configuration settings
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for the particular uploaded product,
and I've navigated to the spot colours tab.
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And the reason I'm bringing you here
is that you can see as part of
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that MEX file import into MegaEdit
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we can see that two new spot
color categories have been created
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and they've automatically
been applied to the product.
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If I then navigate to
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the MegaEdit general data
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and again
click on the spot color categories.
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Here we can see
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what is actually contained within those
two new spot color categories.
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So we can get to those details
just by clicking on the configure button
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next to the relevant categories.
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Now before I do that,
you can see that the has to be created.
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One is under the name colours,
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which is the name of our resource
set that we created.
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And one of them is just under the name
standard.
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So let's start with colours
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so we can see that
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the defined spot was within there
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or just the ones that were defined
in the particular
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resource set.
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In comparison,
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the ones that have been
put into the standard category
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are the spot colour
that have been specified elsewhere.
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So in our case,
we did it on a a variable default value
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and we did it on
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one of our property fields.
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So if we now take a look
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at the actual MegaEdit product itself,
just to see what that actually does.
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So to start off with the spot color
variable that we've got first on our list.
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So as a reminder, this variable was linked
directly to our defined spot colours.
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And what we can see when I click on
this is all of the spot
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colour are selectable
regardless of where they were created.
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So we've got the Navy, which was from the
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the colour Resource set, but
we've also got the one from the default
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variable color and we've also got the one
from the field properties.
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So all of the spot
colour defined in that Invent file
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are available
under the spot colours category.
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And then
again, just as a comparative purpose.
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So I've just changed that colour to show it
working.
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Now again, in comparison,
the All Colors dropdown only lists
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the colors that were present in its linked
resource
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of the generated color set.
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So you see, we only have
two particular colors in there.
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One of these was defined
as a spot for the Navy.
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One of them wasn't.
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But because by linking
just to a resource set, that
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doesn't matter.