Adobe Photoshop – Spot Color Separation – Screen Printing
January 26, 2010 by
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A detailed tutorial and walk through of how to separate colors in adobe photoshop so you can create the film negatives to screen print with. Brought To You By: WwW.MzMVoice.CoM Created For: WwW.T-ShirtForums.CoM Have A Voice!
OMG! You So Rock Dude! Thanks A Million!
keep up the good work
Yes it helped, thanks man, you rock!
THANK YOU!
you are the best! thank you for posting on tshirt forums and sharing this
Thank you for sharing this good info. btw, why all the thumbs down on the comments below?
dude! seriously! thank you so much for this vid. I have been searching and searching for this simple information. This was exactly what i was looking for!
Thanks. Now i dont have to freak out the rest of the day.
dude just saved a ton of time
Drag the vector over to PS, its called a smart object…only for smart people though.
You’re the man! Thank you!
THANK YOU I was just going to do one color for the rest of eternity but now look at me. Thanks a million
cirillosp you didnt read what i wrote did you? criticize what? im a student in design i think i know what i am talking about. those douche bags have to fix your crap work – what you see is not what you get when it comes to any kind of print. obviously you do not do anything in design – photoshop is not what design is about – you even know what picas and points are? how dare you try and talk crap to me lol seriously! … come on now … seriously…
seriously!… get a life cirillosp
sirkinyo, why don’t you go fuck yourself?! criticize someone that only trying to help is the worst thing a looser could do. I bet you’re one of those douche-bags who charge tons of money for simple things like this.
MentinkZM, you’re awesome!!!
hahaha i love it when you say go “boom”
AMAZING. Do you have a paypal account? I’d love to donate. Seriously. I’m so glad you posted this. Wow. It’s so easy.
omg!!!! you are so good!!!! thank you!!! you are right ! people do want to charge a fortune for this !!!! thankyou so much any good afordable silk skreening company that u might recomend?thankyou !!!
wow this video helped me, all the written tuts i saw on the web were too complicated.
yours is just quick and spot on!
thanks for helping!
The more complicated your designs are, the more work a designer has to do to fix it and separate the colors correctly.
Anyways, sorry for jacking your video postings! I just wanted to make sure you knew more about the process of really doing color separations.
ps – yeah, I would never use a program to fix color separations! They always change the look of the project, and miss things!
SO all in all, I hope I helped, maybe you can make another video of more detail to help people with my info
In your video you mentioned quality. Raster images such as what you get with photoshop can easily get pixelated. That’s why I use Illustrator to make Vector designs. In screen printing, a pixelated image can (not always) lead to small imperfections all around your design in the form of dots.
And my last note, I hope you know why you were quoted so much now by reading about what color separation really is. You explained the simple part pretty well. But you left out the agonizing part!
*Continued
Now with the strokes being converted (expanded) into shapes, the colors “overlap” by 1 point, half of the original 2 points wide the stroke started off with.
Ever wonder what “overprint” preview in the view options is? Well it shows you a preview of what the strokes you made look like. That over lap in colors in the stroke is the “overprint.” The overprint is what prevents the ugly gaps and nasty overlaps.
Remember the stroke has to be a lighter tint of the color u r overlapping.
That is color separations, BUT! what people are doing is more than that for that kind of money. I’m a graphic designer and knowing this information gets me paid double than a normal designer.
*note
Not many people I know use photoshop for setting up images for screen printing. Personally I use Illustrator CS4
- Separations include removing any strokes – adding 2 points at a minimum to where colors with no similarities come together. the strokes are expanded into shapes.
thank I need that ..p.i.t.s. That is good info keep it up
thank you very much for your help, hope to see more great vids
how can u export the file