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Photoshop Tutorial #1 : Using Color Range To Separate Color / For Screen Printing (Eng Subtitles)
November 9, 2019
Today I am going to make a tutorial video how to separate solid color in Photoshop as you can see this design has four colors this is not Simulated or CMYK may be a reference for those of you who are less skilled in Photoshop or less skilled in color separation let’s do it we will separate color by using color range open your artwork this design is in Jpeg format set the document size to the size you want to print in this case I set A3+ look at the Layer section on the right I will copy this layer. Press Ctrl + J to copy or just drag the design to create a new layer you will see Background and Layer 1 I will hide Background layer and use Layer 1 only we going to use Layer 1 to doing the process go to Sellect and choose Color Range after selecting the color range you will see this panel this design has four colors I just click on the yellow color adjust the fuzziness accordingly in this case I will pull to the right you should try playing the fuzziness as it depends on the design when you’re done with fuzziness then press OK after pressing OK button you will see the active line next step I hide Layer 1 then I create a new layer rename to YELLOW then press Alt + Delete or Alt + Backspace tu put the color or to paste the color other than that you can use Paint Bucket Tool now we got YELLOW color now hide the YELLOW layer open Layer 1 now we will separate Blue color same step, go to Select and choose Color Range just repeat the same process as we did the Yellow color hide layer 1 create new layer and rename to Blue press Alt + Delete / Alt + Backspace to fill the color to remove the active line press Ctrl + D or go to Select and click Deselect do the same process to other color for Gray color we need to make some adjustments make some adjustments to the fuzziness if necessary hide Layer 1 create a new layer rename to Gray press Alt + Delete / Alt + Backspace unhide all layer after that create new layer change the name to Shirt color. For example I use Black because I’m going to print on a black tshirt pick Black from color picker press Alt + Delete / Alt + Backspace now we’re done with the solid color separation process simple and easy it takes about 15 – 20 minutes depending on your design double check to make sure everything is correct if you want to compare just duplicate the file and put side by side original image on the right side separation file on the left side in this video I only show you the separation process if you wanted to print film, just put the Marking and change all layer color to Black to do that, go to Add a layer style choose Color Overlay and pick Black do the same to other layer I hope you guys enjoy this video see you in the next video
what’s going on guys welcome to part
number two of starting a clothing line from scratch in the first video we did a
collaborative work with a man mark Mendo but we actually dived into everything in
regards to the designing and the branding of your clothing line and in
this video we’re gonna dive into everything associated with actually
making your products that means the printing process of this and more
importantly we’re gonna dive into the differences between DTG and screen
printing so in this video you guys are going to learn all of that if you’re a
new visitor to this channel hit that subscribe button and turn on the
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business from the ground up alright let’s head aside and let’s jump into
everything that you’re gonna need to know in order to build and print and
make your products from the ground up let’s do it so today we’re actually
coming into inks apparel with the man Julian who’s a manager of this location
they do a variety of different printing what up dude thanks for coming out
thanks for having us out here for sure it’s so like I sent a couple files over
to you a few days ago in regards to the printing what we’re gonna need and I
just wanted to go over that stuff with you guys and kind of share your
knowledge and your your insight into the printing process and what people may
need to know before they start a production run right yeah we did receive
the files and if you come back and show your samples going so this is the follow
you guys site Sydney which is actually a great great quality file as a EPS file
which it’s a vector makes things a whole lot easier but get a lot of people in
here they’re bringing these files that are JPEGs and pictures and they want us
to come in and do magic what I mean you know
it’s just it’s not possible it’s impossible to you know get a quality
print right out of a father-son correct all right so like what’s the difference
between having like a like like a JPEG and having an EPS or a vector file well
outlines picture a JPEG or something like that so it’s an actual picture so
the more you stretch it the quality’s just not gonna be United it’s gonna look
bad so it’ll look like our myspace profile pictures from like backing back
I don’t know if you guys have myspace or not but those uh those photos look
pretty bad if you try to log in I think they just deleted all of them what what
are some of the things that you guys look for an artwork for printing wise
like is obviously you want it to be in vector but is there like a certain color
scheme or PMS codes I should be associated or anything like that when it
comes to the colors absolutely you do want us to hit a certain color we would
require you to bring the PMS colors or put them in the file we can take it from
there got it so then how do you guys like
going about actually making those those mixes in the back is it like a certain
table that’s like Universal so whether you’re working with you guys we’re
working with somebody else those PMS colors are universal to
everybody they are they are they it’s a it’s a Pantone mix everybody falls the
same formula it’s – all done by weight so so we got we got good working files
so then from here we literally what’s what’s the next stage after they send
you the working art files well after this prints of film after we get the
film print it out we put them on the screens and burn the screens oh cool
let’s let’s go check out that process and so we got the screen alright guys so
we just burned this screen for you fresh off the exposure unit that’s the process
that you do after you get your artwork set up you get your colors separated
then you go to your computer you print out a film and you burn it in the
exposure unit what’s going on right here the process of this is you have a blank
screen and it’s gonna be the color of the of the silk right here you have to
spread your emulsion it you take your film you tape it up and the film is
pretty much just going to be a clear film with black ink once you burn it it
burns that image right into the screen you take a pressure washer and you wash
it and this part is gonna start falling off and then you get your nice image
that you see here for the purpose of this video we wanted to make sure that
we just jumped right into the action of it so you guys can see the screens are
already ready for us to use and she’s gonna show us how to this how this stuff
actually loads up in the t-shirt printer and design you want to make sure you get
center as possible the first screen is gonna be the easiest to do its lining up
the colors after it that’s the tricky part you got to register it and make
sure all your colors line up or it’ll look like a mess so for this machine all
you do here once you load it in just set the clamps and you’re ready to rock and
roll oh so then is that the reason why that you guys like when it comes to
screen printing there’s so many minimum order quantities is because of the setup
takes quite a bit uh it’s not as easy as you know I just made it look a single
color jobs will be that easy but it gets a little more complicated once you have
multiple colors we put these little registration marks here to make it easy
when you lift the the platen up through the screen
you can make sure all the colors are lining up but even still that’s a little
hard that’s why you have your micro adjustments here so you can just kind of
you know inch in front back side to side whatever you need to do alright so when
it comes to screen printing you gotta have multiple screens if you’re doing
multiple colors exactly you have to have it’s one color per screen essentially so
if it’s a full color job you know we’ll have all these uh heads filled up here
all for one design so that’s that’s the key part of t-shirt printing is that if
the more colors that you want to have in your design the more screens you gotta
have a little bit more cost right for each screen that you guys are creating
because if that burning process is associated with each step of the design
right exactly got it so then you guys used to have a DTG printer here too
right yes actually started out with DTG and we had just sold our machine it’s a
bit of a finicky process the whole pretreatment and holding up in the wash
and uh but I mean each each method has its place in the market this is good for
volume for sure you can you know bang out hundreds of shirts an hour
the DTG realistically you could do about ten full size images in hours so you can
see where that would be a bit of a problem if you have more you know
high-volume business but uh you know we do get people walking in that just want
one offs or small orders or you know something full-color and they don’t want
to pay you know the $25 per screen set up for you so it has its place but you
know this is a little bit better for our sleeve here because you guys this
business is primarily more large revolving business right guys so the
t-shirt printing is a really easy add-on to your services that make sounds cool
so then so what happens after the screen is set how do you guys choose what type
of inks somebody should use oh not now what type of inks boy what type of
printing method whether it’s plaster saw maybe water-based or discharge like how
do you guys decide on that so we actually currently only do a plastic off
we haven’t gotten into the water-based yet although I want to because it’s more
environmentally friendly but it’s a lot more difficult of a process and we just
didn’t want to get into that yeah so we only do plasma and plasma cells real
straightforward and that’s what we’re doing today right and it’s long lasting
– I think it’s gonna last you like got it got it got it so yes guys there’s
those three major ones is obviously plastics off water-based and you have
discharge as well but a lot of shops I would say really focus
plastisol yeah and it’s very straightforward and it’s a really good
quality garment so when it comes to like what would you say is something that
compares with the quality of DTG when it comes to screen printing would you say
that the plastic saw can also mimic the DTG or oh yeah commitment get for sure
justice it really just lies in the difference between those is the wash
ability and how long it’s going to hold up got it cool so let’s uh let’s dive
into some of this printing what was next alright so next pretty much we just
gotta load the squeegee up we got a slap thank God and we can get
rolling here oh we’re just gonna do a little sample run here have an old shirt
to use so we don’t really have to line it up or anything but you guys usually
do a sample run every design you guys bring in we have boxes of shirts called
thirds that we got some Sun apparel that are like damaged shirt oh yeah holes in
there how much how much do these want to run you guys like like when it comes to
the seconds like this for the entire box like how many pennies or how many cents
a shirt I mean you get like 80 something shirts for 17 dollars oh she was a way
to do it really they sell felt pads and stuff you could do but those are not
using found this out we’re like way to go okay so we’re gonna run this over
here you’ve got to make sure this bottom part is lined up with that little
bracket there table whistle it’s up it’s gonna be a
bad thing at this I’m lined up at least a little bit so this is printed one so
I’m gonna come here I’m gonna flip on printer one we’re gonna send a sample
print really quick now this here we’re just doing this to get the color
register so right now our white screen setup and then there’s gonna be orange
in the design so once we do the white we tend to be two coats so let’s send that
right now then we’re gonna go out try the white once it’s dried we’re gonna
send it on over to the orange screen and we’re gonna raise the sail up so the
Pala is right against the screen you’re gonna be able to see the registration
mark and on the orange screen you’re gonna try to line it up as best as you
can so now I’m gonna send the flash that’s
really cool you guys have it right here you don’t
have to move it or anything let’s go totally dry those light bulbs
are so freakin hot all right I was really cool the first products now we do
two passes there usually it looks like that but it’s fine once you go to lay
the orange on top it’ll be all right over here to the orange screen our
master registration man Julian’s gonna line this up for us so right now we have
the white lay down on the shirt so we’re gonna go ahead and lift our table and
now we can see where we’re at here so we come in and align the screen but once
this is set once you guys set it for the first one it’s good for all the others
who just run it through but even when they came to like DTG printing you guys
still had a lot of adjustments to make for each design right like when it came
to using btg you guys had to do a lot of like adjustments to the actual design
sometimes for this we’re all done in the computer know those are adjustments you
make pride in the file when in the ripping
state a stage of the process right I suppose – these are all manual
adjustments here what were some of the challenges you guys had with running at
btg like the learning curves or like some of the challenges you guys had was
running a director gamma printer learning curve is huge I spent about six
months doing nothing but that and I finally just kind of gave up on it uh
it’s really uh you have to be testing on your garments before you send them out
or a little crack they’ll peel they’ll fade weird things will happen in it I
mean I kept pages and pages of notes and you just get to a point where you want
to deal with more volume and this stuff is kind of just like the DTG it’s kind
of like yeah it’s it’s it’s too much I can’t focus on other things if I’m doing
this and let’s you our experience and you know what you’re doing so I that was
a huge challenge I personally wanted to keep the Machine because I see the place
for it but we wanted to always downgrade to save on cost what’s been a learning
curve with screen printing so far you have to be able to look at a design and
know what colors you want to print first that was kind of a learning curve for us
in the beginning we used to use the heat press and for like certain brands of
inks if you put too much pressure it’s just gonna spread the ink I mean it’s
it’s just when you think you got it another thing happens so then that’s
what much of DCG for sure we’re already kind of like rock and roll in the ditch
but still learning and that way it looks a little dull
because you know when you first get going well everybody does is they’ll
heat up the platen under that flash because the white is so thick that no
one we’re gonna have it look like that until it’s a little more humid see even
when you know you messed around with this for a while and you think okay I
got it I walked by that little yeah so now that we’ve got the screen set up and
the ink is ready to go we’re ready to start the production with the designs
and the styles that we brought from Val canvas so the reason that we want with
Bella is the different styles that they have for the fast fashion collection as
well as a consistency in print as long as you get it from a reputable supplier
you’ll know that you’ll be able to get good ink and good print on the designs
that you’re going with so now that we got this thing started let’s get it so
now that everything is set up what’s next all right we got this shirt loaded
on the eyelet here and we’re gonna get ready to uh sure
but it was like I’d go anywhere and I got all my environment set up I’m gonna
double-check so we went from testing a couple shirts to now running the
production of it and this should be pretty straightforward because you guys can see it’s literally
taking all the measurements everything that was set for the for the test run is
now being applied to the actual run and these things will just shift and
complete the design so the setup is what takes a little bit longer when it comes
to t-shirt printing but your cost is gonna be lower due to the volume and you
guys are doing a great job making it making it come out the way that we
designed it so while we’re waiting for the printers to complete the shirts
Julien what are the services as entrepreneurs or apparel brand owners
what are the things should they be on the lookout in order to brand and market
their business and what type of things do you guys have available in-house
well absolutely you’re going to eat lots of marketing to promote your brand and
here we offer so this machine does what full-color
color so then like you guys are able to print the entire entire floor that’s
awesome so this machine does it all inside how does the components of this
thing look like it’s like a big-ass DTG printer for for
everything for colors plus white clean you know that’s crazy and look at the
belt on that thing I think so just like slides through this thing is just
sliding through printing on something that’s legit that’s awesome so then you
guys also have business card printing right direct mailings Flyers postcards
anything marketing related that you are going to me so one of the things that
that we’re looking at right here is the actual cutter for the business card
itself right correct so you just put this big stack of printed materials that
you guys made on a different machine and now it’s just cutting it automatically
once you get done printing if you print on full-sized sheet mm-hmm and then you
come down and finish it and cut it down into the finished product size all right
you guys so now that we got the printing completed I want to jump into the
reasons and the details as to why I chose screen printing versus DTG but
before we get into that I just want to highlight some of the pros to screen
printing now look this design that we had all the designs that we had we’re
essentially just a two color design we had an orange and a white which is the
designs that Mendo created so they came out super clean in a screen printing
design and what I want to do right now is actually just put one of these on so
let me just grab this one right here and as you guys can see super important for
you to have very crisp artwork in order for the designs to come out on the shirt
I’m very happy with how bright the whites came up against the black and the
darker shirts which is a pro too actually doing screen printing versus
the DTG even though you can get really bright colors with DTG as well it never
comes out as super bright as maybe a an actual screen printed design would now
another pro to actually using screen printing versus vtg is the fact that
your cost and your price points are significantly lower than they would be
if you’re printing with a direct-to-garment printer now the reason
for that guys as we discussed is the fact that even though you have a higher
upfront cost when you’re going to screen printing like your setup fees that are
involved you guys saw the process of making screens the adjustments of
actually getting that order ready everything takes a little bit of time
and you’re essentially ordering in bulk which is the reason that it gives you a
significant discount versus going to a direct to garment printer and having to
print one by one now the setup to direct-to-garment printing is a lot more
straightforward a lot of it has to do with setting it up on the computer side
of things and just kind of doing the pretreatment and as long as the printer
knows what they’re doing you’re gonna get a good quality print but if you’re
still if you’re considering I’m like doing it yourself with a direct to
garment printer there’s always gonna be a learning curve to making sure that
that pretreatment and everything that you do is going to work out so that is a
pro to t-shirt printing with screen printing is the fact that you could
essentially just use a plastisol ink burn some of the screens and there’s a
minimal learning curve and you can get up and running and get a bunch of
designs printed out of way lower cost and you would with direct-to-garment
printing now the reason for that of course is the
volume and that’s something that you have to consider if you’re gonna be
doing screen printing is you need to know that you got to order at least
fifty to a hundred shirts of a single color or maybe a two color design in
order for you guys to get those price breaks so the reason that I chose screen
printing with these designs is because I already knew where these designs and
where these shirts that we ordered we’re gonna go I know that they’re gonna go to
the ground up community the people that subscribe to from the ground up Academy
and I knew that we were gonna have a market where we can use
ship them to so for us and made a lot more sense to reduce our cost by
ordering in bulk and versus going to a direct to garment printing and paying a
higher upfront costs for each individual product now when it comes to creating
your screens everything’s already made so you already have that you already
have that one-time cost that you can continue to reuse as you reorder your
designs as long as the designs stay consistent you don’t get charged a whole
new fee and each time you go back to the printer all right so if you’re gonna
order in volume just make sure that you already have a distribution method
meaning a way for the shirts to get out if you’re testing ideas and you just
kind of want to know like okay is this design gonna do good then definitely
consider direct-to-garment printing director garment printing allows you to
print full-color and it’s not a crazy design and a crazy length of time and
they’re not gonna require that you order you know hundred shirts of that design
in order for them to print em for you so that is the reason why I chose screen
printing for these designs and I really appreciate you guys for watching this
video this is a part of the series we’re starting a clothing line from scratch so
if you guys have any recommendations on where we should go with this video leave
them in the comments down below I want to expand on this topic but we really
need to hear some of your questions your comments and your concerns in order for
us to take the next video in the direction that you guys see fit right
and more importantly huge shoutouts to my inked apparel – I am Mendo from endo
creative and – Bella canvas for making this video possible and to continue
helping us build this community and build the resources that we continue to
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In today’s tutorial I’m going to show you how to separate simulated or spot process manually coming up hey welcome back everybody if you’re in the market for Adobe Photoshop or illustrator these are linked down in the description what it will do is help fund our channels that way we can continue to make tutorials such as these and it doesn’t cost you any more than if you’re just to go over to adobe.com yourself okay so I have some artwork that I pulled off the internet I found the largest image that I could use that looks like it would work really well on a black t-shirt so here is our artwork and the first thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go to image and duplicate I’m gonna hit okay I’m gonna drag this off to the side the reason being and why I am doing this is I want the original image for a basis of comparison while I am doing these separations to do simulated or spot process okay so here’s our duplicate image when a client provides artwork you want to make sure that to providing it at full print size at 300 dpi no more less than 200 dpi so let’s res this up a little bit we’re gonna go to image and size you can hit command option I as your quick key I know my maximum print size is 12 by 15 so I just in height right here just put 15 I’m going to hit OK and what it’s doing is is just raising it up a little bit hit command 0 to get it back to a general overview the same thing for this image over here command 0 now the next thing I’m going to do and hit D on the keyboard make sure my foreground color is black actually you know what it’s my background colors that I need black so I’m going to hit X on the keyboard I’m going to go to image canvas size up by an inch on both dimensions that way we can feather the edge out I don’t want the edge of this to be if I were to print this on a t-shirt I don’t want a hard edge on both sides so now at this point what I’m going to do is I’m just going to take a brush quickly hold option and ctrl down and all I had to do is drag your mouse a little bit what it will do is kind of resize your brush hit command – and I’m just going to go in here make sure my foreground color is black and I’m just going to feather some of these edges out here and all I’m doing is clicking from one point to the other and holding shift that will do pretty much a continuous brush stroke instead of having to go in and manually draw it I’m going to try not to affect this too much but for demonstration sake it’s not that big of a deal okay so that looks pretty good I might feather this just a touch more so it doesn’t quite look like a rectangle now that we’re at this point the first thing I’m going to do is I’m gonna hover my mouse over RGB hold down command for you PC users out there just hold ctrl click on RGB I’m going to go over to select modify expand and we’re gonna expand it by 1 and you’ll find this is going to be the common theme throughout this entire tutorial at this point we’re going to go over here to our create a new mask we’re gonna hit that hit command D go over to our layer and hit command I and what that will do is inverse it so now at this point what is black is what will actually print down that will be your white so what we just created is our white base so I’m going to call this white base hit enter I’m going to go back over to RGB next thing I’m going to do is I’m going to go to color range and I’m going to go to Red’s and I’m going to hit okay back over to select modify expand by one and then I’m going to create a new mask layer let’s call this red and then hit deselect command I to inverse that and we’re gonna repeat this down for every single color that you are about to see here so select color range we’re gonna go to yellows we’re gonna hit okay and at this point because there’s very little yellow it will give me a little bit of a warning I’m gonna hit okay so we’re gonna go over to select modify expand by one will give me that same warning again however I’m going to go over make a new mask I’m going to hit D to deselect command deep hit command I to inverse it you can actually see that there is some information here and I’ll show you a little bit of an easier way to figure out whether or not even need to make a channel in this case we are making a channel but this will end up being the amount of screens that you will end up screen printing down so let’s go back over the RGB select color range we’re gonna go over the greens and you can see here I have white mask selected it doesn’t really look like there’s a whole lot of green in here the reason I did do the yellows because that yellow will be in her face and that’s what’s going to make those flesh tones so I’m just gonna hit cancel on that one I’m gonna go over to select color range let’s go back over to cyan ‘s hit OK you can definitely see there’s information there select modify expand by one make a new alpha channel hit deselect I’ll call this cyan hit command-i while still on that channel go back up the RGB we’re gonna keep going forward select color range blues you can see there is some blue information here but what I think I will end up doing because I do only have a six color press is I probably will end up just merging that blue with the cyan so let’s just go ahead and hit OK you see us give me a little bit of warning in it okay select modify expand by one okay hit OK again new mask we’re gonna hit command D go over here invert it we’re going to name it blue back to RGB select color range last but not least four colors magenta and you can see there is a little bit of magenta we might end up merging this into the red so that way we can stick to our six colors because we only have a six color press if you have a press with 812 colors keep that in mind that you want to limit it to the amount of colors you’re able to print so I’m going to go to select modify expand by one and we’re going to make a new mask command D over to our channel we’re going to call this magenta a command I to inverse it so now you see what we’re actually printing now what we’re going to do is we’re going to create a highlight color and how you want to go about doing that as selecting your blue channel you’re going to right click on that hit duplicate Channel we’re gonna call this white highlight and it’s very important that you do select invert otherwise you’ll have all kinds of issues you’ll kind of be wondering what’s going on so I’m gonna hit okay so now if I go down to that you’ll see my selection for the white highlight and we’re gonna adjust all these and I’ll show you that here in a moment so our next step at this point is we’re going to just make a new channel by clicking this new button here it’s completely black I’m going to drag that up to the top just above white base let’s call this black t-shirt I’m gonna hit enter I’m gonna double click on that I’m going to make sure that it is indeed black and it is reading 100% opacity so that’s great next thing we’re going to do is we’re going to double click on white base we’re going to now designate this as a spot color and we are gonna make sure that it is white and we’re gonna make the solidity 85% use 85% for your whites just kind of as a default you can always go back and adjust a little bit to get the results that you do want so I’m gonna go ahead and hit OK now I’m gonna go over the red double click on it you already have a red color selected here so I’m gonna select spot color now for the rest these colors I’m gonna make them 5% and this channel here I forgot to label it but I do know it is yellow because there’s hardly any information here and it’s making up those flesh tones so I’m going to double click on this make it a spot color and then I’m gonna go over to my CMYK percentages here I’m gonna make that a true yellow hit okay make this 5% okay I’m just going to go down line so when it’s a percent cyan okay five percent solidity we’re going to go over to blue make it a spot color since I am 50% magenta zero for the rest of the values okay we’re gonna make that five percent again hit okay and then we got our magenta make that 100% yellow zero okay spot color Lidda t 5% and then last but not least we have our white highlight make that white spot color once again 85 percent I’m going to hit okay so now at this point we turn all of our colors on and you’ll see that we’re getting closer to actually having all of our separations done one of the things you want to do is just go ahead and turn the white highlight off and then we’re gonna start working with the white base I’m gonna click on it hit command l to bring our levels up now you don’t want to compress it too too much on this in you kind of want to work with your your middle fader here to kind of work with some of these values here but in this case because there are some pretty dark spots over here we may need to compress it just a little more just keep that in mind so we’re just trying to make this look similar to this over here and what you’re going to have to do is just mess around with your your level sliders and this is you’re essentially 100% this is your 0% this is your in-betweens your 50s 2575 all that fun stuff so I’m going to pull this back and we’re gonna gradually just tweak it each one of these until it gets closer to the results that we’re looking for and keep in mind we do have our white highlight down here that will help boost some of these colors here for example this skull here whatever this is down here it should be white our white highlight will definitely affect that and make it a bright white so that looks pretty good for the moment let’s go over to our red hit command l bring our levels up we might want to boost that just a little bit even might want to change the color of this red something a little warmer and just keep in mind that whatever color you do end up going with that is what you should use in your screen and you know it’s not too too bad I think I’ll just leave it as is one of the things I’m going to concentrate on is her face right here so I’m going to mess with this middle slider just a little bit I think that’s fine let’s move on to our yellow and now you can tell if you go really extreme just how much this affects this artwork let me slide this around a little bit until we get the shade in her face that we’re looking for so I’m gonna hit okay we’re gonna go over to cyan command L and continue down the line until starts to look more like our example over here now because we are doing these separations it’s not going to be 100% spot on you can get pretty close but some of the things you have to do you have to do a lot of tweaking for example with these Reds you may have to do a separate selection for those and go in and tweak that manually in a case like this may even need to make a black layer which we may end up doing okay so there’s not a whole lot of blue here one of the things I’m going to do is hold down command hover over the blue channel here click on it I’m going to hit OK I’m going to go over to cyan make sure my foreground fill color is black I’m gonna hit option + delete so that essentially combined the cyan and the blue at this point I’m gonna get rid of the blue because there’s not a whole lot there what information was there is now in the cyan layer next thing we’re going to do is go over to magenta there’s not a whole lot on the magenta side so I think I’m gonna do that same thing I’m gonna hold command down and then I’m going to go over to red make sure my foreground color here is black hit option delete so now that essentially merged those two colors and then hit command D go over here to magenta I’m going to deselect that or delete it excuse me so we’re starting to get a little close at this point what I would do is I’m going to go ahead and turn on my highlight white color and that will give us a little more information here so I’m gonna go down to my highlight white gopher to image adjustments brightness and contrast and as we start to slide this you will see that we’re starting to get some results towards where it’s starting to look closer towards the poster you can even boost up some of the contrast here that’s looking pretty good I’m gonna hit okay go back over to my highlight white and go to my levels and I may pull some of this back and what we’re trying to avoid is some of the hard breaks interface here the more you compress it the harder breaks her that you will have you can see these breaks going on now we want a gradual transition with those tones so I think I’ll pull this back a little more get a little closer to where Annie’s a beam I don’t think that’s looking pretty good I’m gonna go over them back over to my white base now you can see here that we are using five colors to achieve what we have going on this farm so if you are happy with the the way it is at this point you could just use five screens and you would get these results here but I’m going to tweak it some more and hit command Elm on our white base and I’m going to pull back some of these colors here and what appears to be smoke might be some sort of concrete background or something like that and I’m going to compress it just a little more it looking a little bit more like our original example here and I think we’re starting to get a little closer you know I’m gonna hit cancel I’m gonna go over to image adjustments brightness contrast and see what that gets us because some of these shoulder pad parts here it’s not quite there just yet and it’s okay using some of these extremes to really kind of figure out where things are at the the goal is to get as close to this image as we can it’s starting to get there you know I might just hit cancel on that let me try the let’s go over to our G beam let’s go to select color range we’re gonna use sample colors we’re gonna come up here and select our black and we’re gonna mess with our fuzziness just a little bit and some of the things I’m paying attention to are the shoulder pads here the body of the suit and I’m going to hit okay now I’m going to make a new channel let me back up a step let me hit undo select modify expand by one new channel I’m going to deselect that come over here and hit command I the inverse it double click on it let’s name it black you got a spot color make it black we’ll make the slit in e5 now let’s see what we have here one of the things I’m going to do is I’m going to drag to black just above the red generally one of the the printing orders that I like to do white black red yellow cyan if you do incorporate a grey you generally want to do that right before the white highlight so let me go to my black hit command L and we’re just gonna mess around that a little bit until we start to get some of the results that we’re looking for him alright let’s try that one here okay I’m gonna hit command undo see changes that we have made turn it on and off see if we’re any closer to where we need to be at I feel like it’s starting to get there black might be a little overwhelming let’s go back over to our white base actually let’s go over to cyan let’s see if we can’t pull that back a little bit and what I’m looking at is some of these areas here I feel like it’s just a little too bright in this particular separation so we’re just kind of tweaking that at the moment is going to tweak that just a bit maybe you can compress it just a touch more let’s turn off our highlight color I still looking pretty good and we’re starting to get there this definitely is a process one of the things I’m not too happy about is red let’s go to the channel of the red see if we boost it a little bit without affecting her face too too much you know might even be the color so you just kind of have to play around these things a little bit you you and so I’m trying to boost this red here so I think one of the things I’m going to do is go back to RGB here and I am going to go to select color range and I am going to select this red to find the point that looks like it’s the most read that’s when my fuzziness a little bit here in the hit okay go back over to my red channel option D let’s hit X on that option D again command d n– command 0 get the overview and let’s take a look at our results looks a little more red let’s kind of back up a step I’m gonna mess around with that just a little bit more looks like in our white base we may just need a little more white behind that red just to really make it stand out so let’s go back over to our RGB m– select color range come back over to this red selected floor fuzziness down just a little bit hit okay I’m gonna go over to my white base I’m a go to select modify and I’m going to feather it by one a little bit of a smoother transition D on the keyboard eggs I’m gonna hit option delete should give us a little bit brighter of a red let’s see how that turned out there we go now we’re talking that’s looking pretty good let me change the color of this red mess with it just a little bit see if we can get a little closer to our image over on the left okay so I’m gonna hit okay there are some hard breaks here so I think I may just go back one more step go back to my RGB select color range come back to my red maybe increase the fuzziness just a little more let’s try 100 and the select modify feather let’s do by 2 this time and let’s hit undo just like modify feather let’s feather by let’s try five let’s see how that works out and accidentally hit the crop adjustment by hitting C on the keyboard not a big deal okay we’re over on our white bass hit option delete make sure black is in the foreground color let’s see what that gets us actually I mean back that up I think I put that on the white base oh let’s put that on red there we go that’s looking better just looking more like a bright red here and because this is a low-res image we are getting some pretty hard breaks going on there but for screen printing purposes I think this will look pretty fantastic might go back and change this red just a little bit but you know you can always go back in your your screen and put whatever red you want in there I’m just might highlight white just a little more now let’s cancel that go back to our read at levels I feel like we lost smoothie flesh tones in her face there okay so I think that is looking pretty good might tweak our black just a little bit and so you can see what I’m doing is I’m going back and I’m just kind of going to each channel messing around with it for demonstrations sake I think this looks really good there is more work that I could do to it to get it closer to this picture but I’m pretty happy with it for now if I were to print that it would look fantastic so what we’re going to do at this point is we’re going to go to a white base and we’re just going to label this number one we’re going to go to black number two I’m going to go down the line and this will be the print sequence and what you need to set your screens up you probably could have done that in the beginning okay now that we have all that set what I’m going to do is I’m going to select these channels here and I am going to delete those and before you do that you could go back and save it for demonstration sake I will just go ahead and save that and we’ll just save it as a Photoshop file include our alpha and spot channel spot color excuse me I’ll just go ahead and save that real quick now at this point and as we were doing we’re going to go ahead and take these and we’re going to just delete these channels you can also just take those and select it and then go to your garbage can delete those channels and then I’m going to hit command shift s and what we’re going to do is we’re going to save this as a Photoshop dcs 2.0 file make sure your spot color selection here is selected and what that is going to do is gonna save each one of those channels as a spot color and it will bring it into adobe illustrator so let’s go ahead and save that it will save it as an EPS like I hopefully I just mentioned that but preview TIFF that’ll be fine you do want to save it as a single file DCS no composite you can use ASCII 285 or just ask you to go ahead okay now I’m gonna take my registration template which you guys can get from our website we’ll leave a link down in the description you can go over and purge that for five bucks so let me go to my templates here I’m going to open up my registration template that’s going to create a new file in this case we’re going to go over to our art layer and I will drag this below the center and registration marks just to make sure those are on top I’m going to find my file let’s go to our desktop and here is our EPS file you can see it does have quite a bit of data here it’s 122 megabytes we’re going to go ahead and place that down as you see as it imports it it is importing each one of these spot colors and it will place it into our swatch palette here so it is placing it down on the artboard pretty large file now it may look a little sloppy here but how it comes out on film and when you go to press it will just it will look just like we had it in Photoshop so I’m going to centreline this to the artboard we have to give it a second because it’s large file don’t have the fastest computer in the world okay so at this point I’m going to make sure my registration marks I’m going to lock the dart layer make sure my registration marks are out of the artwork just using shift the arrow key it’s going to kind of Center this up and the registration and center marks are designated as a registration color that way your registration marks will print out on every single piece of film so as you can see here we do have our spot colors we got our white base our black are red are yellow are cyan and then our highlight wipe in this case if I were printing down black I would feather out this border here or the you know the hard edge that way when you do go to print it on a t-shirt you’re not going to see that so essentially you would kind of feather it along with this edge here now how I would go about printing this film at this point is I’ll hit command P for print we have accurate and a Epson 1430 a key rip is set to you I would suggest using 42 to 45 dpi at 22.5 degree angle and what you can do is you can click output here and you will see that you have your six spot colors that will print out and that will print every single one of your separations so at this point all I have to do is hit print expose some screen setup on press you will use 2:30 mesh screens print your under base give it a couple hits flash that and then go back and print every single one of your colors wet-on-wet what that will do is allow those colors to mix up and give you the results that you are seeing in Photoshop now you will have to do about four to six just kind of test prints before the ink really does build up on the back of those screens and you will start to see the results that you’re after thanks for tuning 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