hey guys, I know this has been talked about a bunch of times but I can't find anything anywhere. Everything is for photoshop, but I need to do it from illustrator. The easiest thing for me would to just make each layer one color, but I have so many things layered on top of each other that it would be pretty much impossible to do it that way. is there a way to save it from illustrator so it automaticcaly sperates each color and puts it on one single layer? thanks 2008-09-02T00:59:49-04:00 4 2008-09-02T00:46:12-04:00 true 0 7012 false false 664 6102 1 2009-11-21T07:34:11-05:00 190 aggreed dude! I would love to know this too. I do everything in illy! 7012 Post 2008-09-02T00:49:14-04:00 182967 4557 2008-09-02T00:49:14-04:00 for separations through illustrator, all you would have to do is 1. make sure all colors have a pantone solid coated color assigned to it. 2. make sure you dont have any strokes or fonts that have not been expanded/outlined/converted 3. provided that the printers illustrators profile is set to a ppd/printing profile, they should be able to choose separations mode under print>output 7012 Post 2008-09-02T00:49:32-04:00 182968 2865 2008-09-02T00:49:32-04:00 thanks jimiyo i think it's about time for me to get a pantone swatch book 7012 Post 2008-09-02T00:57:15-04:00 182972 6102 2008-09-02T00:57:15-04:00 turn every color but the color you want white, then turn that color black and add some reference points. that how i did it back in the day. 7012 Post 2008-09-02T00:59:49-04:00 182973 664 2008-09-02T01:00:07-04:00