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The essential Adobe Illustrator® color plugin range

Phantasm CS

  • Color functions available as Filters and live Effects:
    • Brightness/Contrast
    • Curves
    • Desaturate
    • Hue/Saturation/Lightness
      • Colorize mode
    • Invert
    • Levels
    • Shift to Color
  • Photoshop CS to CS3 compatible color change settings Load/Save:
    • Curves (including pencil mode)
    • Hue/Saturation
    • Levels
  • Filter and Effect color function options:
    • Safe CMYK
    • Ignore spot colors
    • Apply to: Fill / Stroke / Bitmaps
    • Convert colorized bitmaps
    • Auto Rasterize
    • Black / White color cut-off:
      • Ignore White (variable range)
      • Ignore Rich Black (variable range)
      • Ignore Pure Black (variable range)
    • Rich black to pure black (variable range and text only option)
    • Overprint control:
      • Adjust
      • Remove Overprint when White
      • Ignore
      • Remove
      • Apply to Spot Colors and/or Colorized Bitmaps
      • Add overprint to Pure Black (variable range and text only option)
    • Define rich black directly or visually
    • Gradient Accuracy
  • Save and manage options settings
  • Additional spot color object and bitmap type selection
  • Actions-compliant Phantasm CS Filter functions and object selection
  • Maintain function window positions between sessions
  • Automatically hide edges when editing colors (Illustrator CS3 only)

Phantasm CS Designer

Features are in addition to Phantasm CS

  • Color functions available as Filters and live Effects:
    • Duotone (including monotone, tritone and quadtone)
    • Halftone (vector)
    • Swap Channels
    • Temperature/Tint
  • Photoshop CS to CS3 compatible color change settings Load/Save:
    • Duotone

Phantasm CS Studio

Features are in addition to Phantasm CS | Designer

  • Output Previews:
    • Quick Separations
    • Overprint Preview
    • Ink Coverage
  • Full Separations
  • In-line embedded image editing (via native Photoshop® file format)
  • Spot channel targeting in Curves and Levels filters/effects

Please note: Full Separations of artwork with spot colors is limited using Adobe Illustrator® CS and CS2 due to technical limitations of these versions. This limitation does not apply to Quick Separations.