Phantasm
Instant color control + halftone
- Vector halftones
- 12 color adjustments
- Apply as non-destructive live effects
- Photoshop compatible settings
- Pre-press corrections
PhantasmInstant access to adjustments via new Phantasm Panel. Essential adjustments, many like you would find in Photoshop including the following: Brightness/Contrast, Curves, Levels, Desaturate, Exposure, Hue/Saturation, Invert, Shift to Color, Temperature/Tint and Prepress Correct. Works on vectors, editable text and embedded images. Live preview. Load and export settings with Photoshop.
All Phantasm adjustments are applied as live effects to ensure a smooth, non-destructive workflow. Toggle the effect visibility on/off via the Appearance Panel. Can be applied to other live effects such as drop shadows and textures found in our other plugins Stylism and Texturino. Phantasm live effects work for vectors, editable text and embedded images. Artwork can be opened by clients without Phantasm.
Quickly create a 100% scalable halftone effect based on any underlying artwork. Includes controls such as Monochrome, CMYK/RGB, Sampled colors, grid angle, dpi, undercoat color and dot gain. Dots can be Circular, Square, Line, Text characters or Symbols. Can be applied to layer prior to drawing. Halftones are particularly useful for posters through to T-shirt design and security printing.
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Made up of three key components, Phantasm makes light work of much sought-after vector halftones, duotones and tricky color adjustments. Easily adjust vector artwork, text, effects and embedded images with curves and other essential controls (just like Photoshop!) directly in Illustrator. With user defined adjustments to ensure a fast workflow and maximum creativity.
Filter variants of all Phantasm live effects have been re-introduced due to popular demand! Discover more in the Object > Filters > Phantasm > … menu.
Phantasm Panel for instant and intuitive color control
Vector Halftone engine for greatly improved quality
Vector Halftone clipping option
Prepress Correct Effect and ability to auto-apply to all layers (via panel)
Filter variants of all live effects re-introduced
Easily automate Phantasm changes with Actions + Filters
Phantasm Panel for instant and intuitive color control
Vector Halftone engine for greatly improved quality
Vector Halftone clipping option
Prepress Correct Effect and ability to auto-apply to all layers (via panel)
Presets across and control
All adjustments are live effects and filters
Significant internal overhaul to better ensure future updates and support
Brightness/Contrast
Curves (including individual RGB/CMYK/Spot + alpha control)
Desaturate
Duotone (including monotone, tritone and quadtone)
Exposure
Halftone (vector)
Hue/Saturation/Lightness (including Colorize mode)
Invert
Levels (including individual RGB/CMYK/Spot + alpha control)
Shift to Color
Temperature/Tint
Prepress Correct
Curves (including pencil mode)
Duotone
Exposure
Hue/Saturation
Levels
Safe CMYK, with option to exclude pure black
Ignore spot colors
Apply to: Fill / Stroke / Text / Images
Convert colorized bitmaps
Auto Rasterize
Black / White color cut-off
Rich black to user-defined color
Overprint control
Gradient Accuracy
All live effects can be incorporated into Illustrator Graphic Styles
Save and manage options settings
Graphic Styles compliant
Additional spot color object, image types and Phantasm live effect selection
