Shades of a global color

It's easy to create tints of a global color, and I really like how if the global color is changed, the tints are as well. But why can't you do the same for shades? It would be great timesaver for shading & highlights on artwork that might change color.

Tints simply reduce the percentages of the color's existing component primaries, for both spot and process colors. Assuming subtractive color (CMYK document), creating shades of spot colors--and of process colors not containing K--would require addition of K (or the complementary primary, etc.) In the case of spot colors, the result wouldn't be a spot color any more. In the case of process colors, you would encounter ambiguities similar to those affecting black generation in RGB-to-CMYK conversion: just as there are myriad ways to generate K, there would also be many ways to darken a color.
In other words, creating tints is a simple and unambiguous matter of decreasing existing percentages. Creating shades would not be a simple matter of increasing percentages, and would have to deal with color-specific ambiguities.
JET

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I have version 6, but it is way out of date, doesn't work on my current system, I downloaded a trial version of the new one, version 12 I think, now I have to decide if I can afford to buy it, it is not cheap!
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philwiles wrote:
... my eps logo ..
Why are you using EPS? It is kind of outdated format these days.
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Removed all layers & did a save as, the file is still 6mb with nothing in it.
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Welcome to the discussions, anthonysan.
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Thank you Mylenium for responding.
Not exactly confusing the two programs, I'm aware that it's Illustrator Swatch, but I was confusing two different vendors altogether. What I was talking about was Corel Photopaint. Corel has that feature, and I suppose Ps doesn't have that. I realized this when I open CPp again.
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