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: For Print: Changing a CMYK logo to gray and bringing back to CMYK (in illustrator) I am doing a print CMYK ad piece. The logo I need to put in the ad is currently a colored CMYK .svg file.

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I am doing a print CMYK ad piece. The logo I need to put in the ad is currently a colored CMYK .svg file. It also has a gradient in it ( which makes things more complicated). I think it will look better in a gray version for the ad.

Question: What is the best way to convert it to a gray version and then bring it back to CMYK (but still have it in gray colors) to then pop it into my CMYK print ready ad? I guess I am afraid of how the final result will look if I muck with converting colors over and then back to CMYK, etc...plus I'm not sure how to go about this in Illustrator.

I am using illustrator for the ad as well.

Thanks!

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@Caterina889

Typically you don't "convert it then bring it back to CMYK". You convert to greyscale, save that version as a new file. So then you have 2 files to work with - 1 grey and 1 CMYK.

Also note that a logo which is 50% black is a CMYK file because Black is part of CMYK. There's really never any need to alter a greyscale or 1 color file to be CMYK breakouts unless you want to implement a rich black or something along those lines. Using a greyscale Logo in an otherwise colorful ad works fine and presents no separation issues provided the logo is black, or a tint of black, and not a spot color.

To convert to greyscale you can use a couple methods...


Select the art and choose Edit > Edit Colors > Convert to Greyscale Then double-check things to ensure you've got just black in use. This method may or may not work depending upon the actual artwork.
Select the elements within the artwork and use the Color, Gradient or Swatches Panels to alter the color directly.

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