I’m super excited to introduce my first-ever blog contributor! Kate Frances is a surface pattern designer and creative coach, and she’s written a fantastic guest blog post for you on a topic I believe many creatives are very familiar with. Enjoy!

As a creative business owner or artist, it’s easy to fall victim to shiny object syndrome. You know what I’m talking about – that feeling when you’re scrolling through social media and see someone else doing something new and exciting, and suddenly you feel like you’re missing out. Or, you start a new project with enthusiasm, only to lose interest halfway through and move on to the next shiny thing that catches your eye.

At the end of last year, I made a few video tutorials for my Pattern Kick customers, explaining some useful tips & tricks to help them make the most of their pattern files. Today I’m sharing one of them with you: How to easily change colour groups to Pantone colours in Illustrator.

This video tutorial will show you, as described in the title, how to convert Illustrator colour groups in your Swatches panel, to Pantone colours. A very useful trick for when you have some artwork ready to send to the printers but didn’t work with Pantone colours from the beginning.