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Defining and exporting spot colours from Invent | IV_019

Here, we will learn how we can define spot colours within Invent and transfer them for use in our end MegaEdit product. As we shall see, spot colours can be defined in various locations within Invent, including as part of a colour resource set, as a default colour for a colour variable, a specified colour for a field property, and others. These spot colours are exported as part of the MEX file, resulting in one or more spot colour categories being created and utilised in MegaEdit. In this tutorial, we will see examples of where we can apply and utilise these spot colours.

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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.

 

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