Using the Hard Mix and Soft Mix effects
The Hard Mix and Soft Mix Pathfinder effects let you control the mix of overlapping fill colors. (See Step 2: Select overprint options for overlapping colors.) Important: You can also control the mix of overlapping colors using the blending modes in the Transparency palette. Blending modes provide many options for controlling overlapping colors, and should always be used in place of Hard Mix and Soft Mix for artwork containing spot colors, patterns, gradients, text, or other complex artwork. Pathfinder effects can only be used on groups, layers, or sublayers. For more information on using effects, see Using filters and effects. Note: Applying either the Hard Mix or Soft Mix effect to objects removes their strokes and groups the objects. In most cases, applying the Hard Mix or Soft Mix effect to objects painted using a mix of process and spot colors converts the color to CMYK. In the case of mixing a non-global process RGB color with a spot RGB color, all spot colors are converted to a non-global process RGB color. If you overlap multiple objects, all overlapping objects are given the visibility level you select. To mix colors by selecting each highest CMYK component value (Hard Mix):
To mix colors by specifying a mixing rate (Soft Mix):
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