Thank you Travis. I'm glad I could help

Thanks Herbert! I'm glad you like it

+nwosuyusi thank you! Hope it helps!

That is all very awesome info. Thanks for that

+Start Screen Printing Now No problem. If you ever have any questions feel free to ask. I have almost a decade of experience as a head pressman on an 8 color M&R sportsman and at the same time worked as pre production artist which entails cleaning up art in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Coreldraw, printing films, and burning screens.

You're very very welcome Exotic Onyx! Yeah its always nice to know tricks to reduce your colors but make it still look like you have more. I'm glad this helped you!!

+William Thomas you're very welcome! Thank you!

No problem! Thanks for watching!

Thanks man! I have a bunch more coming!

+shonsteez thanks man! Will do

Thanks Thomas. Hope it works well for you!

Thanks dude!

You're very welcome dude!

Thank you very much Rubiks. I'm glad you like it!

+Ruben Chavez You're very welcome!! Thanks for watching!!

+Ed Husar Thanks Ed!

+Casiel Checoni Thanks dude!

+Jose Pineda Thanks jose!

I can do this without the halftone dots? Like a flat image. Thanks!

+Mike Kiske yep! Halftone dots not required

Thanks!

+Mike Kiske no problemo!

Thanks Rahmat! I'm glad you liked it!

+Ben Whelan Thanks dude!

Julian Garcia No problem Julian!!

Thanks for watching Leon Nazarian !!!

Thank you!!

+Michael Yakutis no problem Michael!

+Michael Yakutis no problem Michael!

I'm glad you like the videos, dude! It really depends on the shop. I've worked with shops that ONLY accept each color as a separate tiff file. And I've worked with some that want each color as a layer in photoshop. But yes combining each tiff into a pdf could be a nice option too. Would be nice and organized. Thanks again for watching!

+Leon Taylor Hey Leon! So RIP software renders all of your halftones for you, gives you greater control of the halftones, and sends that info straight to your printer from illustrator or photoshop. It makes things a lot simpler faster and gives you more control basically. If you output large amounts of film like most shops do it would be pretty impossible to operate without it because it saves so much time. I do not currently have a printer at home, I am saving up to get an Epson 1430 which is what I recommend using at home or for a small shop setup. My old shop is nice enough to let me use their Epson Stylus 7800 to print on Ulano 17" Waterproof film. Thanks again Leon! Im happy to help!!

+Start Screen Printing Now Thank you very much Sir.

No problem Leon!

Thank you! My dad actually made the music in garageband years ago.

+Stefani Tomova did you double check to make sure your black is a spot color and that it is applied to your artwork? I'm a little unsure what you mean about your colors being over each other. Are they set to overprint (can be checked in the attributes panel) or multiply in the transparency panel?

Thanks Boy London! This particular design was done entirely in Illustrator so the color separation part is easy. You just need to make sure your colors have a spot color or pantone swatch applied to them. Manual color separations with artwork created in photoshop is a little more difficult. I'm working on a video series for photoshop right now because that is one of my most requested tutorials so stay tuned for that soon.

there is an actual registration color in your swatch platte, has a bullseye icon

It offers a lot of control over the films you're printing. You can easily hit print straight from illustrator or Photoshop and it will send a postscript file to the rip that will then let you control the halftone dot size, angle, and even let you gang up and arrange all of your separated films/colors onto the sheet so you maximize the space and don't waste film. It does offer convenience when you are printing lots of film everyday really

+Zionite Lifestyle Thanks man!

You're welcome A. Upshaw! It should automatically show up as a printer in your print dialogue box but if its not showing up for you or maybe you accidentally deleted the PPD, there's a helpful thread over at the Adobe forums here: forums.adobe.com/thread/1076693

Start Screen Printing Now Thank you!! I will check it out.

Thanks *****! Yes I would do a full 100% underbase. But if your artwork calls for halftones in your underbase like the colors are blending into the garment color I would make sure the dot angle of the underbase matches the angle of the ink colors so that the dots line up and dont print in between.

Even if they are different LPI they'll line up ok? I usually do my underbase on a lower mesh than the colors.

+Leon Taylor Hi Leon! I would say you should look into the Epson 1400 or 1430. It's reasonably priced and allows wide format printing so you can get larger films. I've found Epsons work the best with rip software.

Hi jchisman1. You absolutely can print from photoshop if you'd like. Personally I like the print dialogue in Illustrator a ton more. I think its more user friendly when printing but again that's just my preference and if you have a large format printer you can print all of your separate colors on one big sheet and cut them out individually (kind of like how I had all of the tiffs spread out in illustrator near the end of the video. If you're printing in photoshop you could even take all of your bitmapped colors and put them in their own layers and just turn on the layers one at a time to print them. Thanks for watching!!!

+nur aini Thanks man! I appreciate it!

+Chris_cut_it_OTB Hey Chris! Thank you! I usually start off with a sketch in pencil, scan it in and ink it and color it in either illustrator or manga studio. Not always though. Sometimes I ink everything on paper, clean it up in photoshop and color it in manga studio. Those 3 programs are the ones I'm always working in.

Hi Vato Alfred. Thats a great question. Photoshop separations are a little more complicated and I am currently working on a photoshop for screen printers series that covers this. My friend Mitch Different has a really awesome book about color separating in photoshop and he's actually the one that taught me. I highly recommend his book but I will touch on some of this in a later series. Its a little more complicated than can be discussed in a comment at the moment. The link to that book is mitchdifferent.com/book.htm Thank you!

Theres actually a swatch in the Illustrator swatch palette called "Registration" that looks like a little crosshair target. If you apply that color to the registration marks you make, it will show up on all seps!

Awesome! Thanks for the quick reply. Hoping for more vids. Subbed!

No problem man! I appreciate it!

+Keith Carter hi Keith. When you bring the pdf into photoshop it will be flattened and your tinted colors should be a shade of grey. When you go to mode>bitmap you'll be able to turn them into halftone dots

+Jason Sacks Hey Jason. I'm sorry man. I only have up to CS6 to play with so I can't tinker with it. Thank you for the kind words though.

Ah dam, thanks tho dude! If you do ever get to play with CC 2017 and hear anything lemme know! Peace!

Bill Alexander AccuRIP for sure. Color TYPE chooses between process color and spot color. Color mode lets you choose what method of sliders you use to create/mix your color. If you're using Spot Colors it doesnt really matter what you use for the color mode. Its just your preference. So yes you are correct.

+Michael K Goode thanks man!

+Start Screen Printing Now ok awesome the opacity thing was the part were I wasn't sure. Thanks a lot. Are you gonna be doing any more videos like this one? It was really helpful.

+Michael Cervantes you're welcome! Yes I am. I fell behind and had major computer issues that kept me from editing but I'm gonna be releasing more regularly very soon

Hi Aurelio! Hmm. Is your tiff image placed as a "linked" file in Illustrator? You can do this by going to file>place> and making sure "link" link is selected. I think it does the same thing if you just rag them onto the artboard. Also it will only apply a color to them if the tiff images are greyscal or bitmapped. Make sure they are in photoshop. Thanks!

It worked!! Thank you so much!

+AurelioDThird no problem man!

+Jailhouse Bradley you can print it on any inkjet printer. I suggest using a printer that can print those glossy photos because they put down more ink so you can get your black image very opaque on the film

Start Screen Printing Now Ok, so according to this, those super expensive film printers are useless? I mean, those cost like $20-25K while a regular printer is like dunno, 250, for example. Now, the thing is, we need to print films on those special printers, because we are using them for pad printing cliches, and we need to get certain ink density, is that possible to achieve on a regular printer? And how about printing certain lines per inch ( or lines per centimeter) line density? We need like 150-175 lpi.

+Michael Cervantes well it all goes back to basic color theory. Red + yellow=orange. Blue + yellow=green. You could do 50/50 on the opacity

This was actually a design I created and separated for an indie brand called The Electric Zombie (seriously check it out) and they had it printed by Merchline so I never got to print this one myself. I will try to upload a video in the future of myself printing a design similar to this at home. Thanks Austin!!

Hey tgill. I've only used CorelDraw a handful of time but if you can get it to "print/export" your art as a postscript file you should be able to do the rest of the steps like I have. Yes print to your waterproof film using the printers settings for printing glossy premium photo paper because that will make the printer put down the most ink on your films. If you have the funds you definitely should pick up AccuRIP (cheaper) or Wasatch softRIP (way more expensive but pretty awesome) because it does save you a ton of time and gives you a ton of control over the halftones if you're outputting a lot of film every day. If you have an actual print sop/business definitely pick it up. If you're doing it at home or for fun I would skip it and just use this method. You can always look into doing a black cartridge conversion kit. They're black ink cartridges but they have chips that will fool the printer into thinking you're using CMYK. Thanks for the questions dude!!

+Jeff M Hi jeff. As long as it's able to trick illustrator into letting you choose separations in the print dialogue, it should be okay. It should render the same way. When you are importing the pdf pages into photoshop, make sure you are turning anti-aliasing OFF. Or else photoshop will soften the edges of your artwork and add shades of grey pixels to the edges and give you halftones around all of your artwork. I don't think those lines you see with the overlapping artwork should show up once you get them into photoshop. Let me know if that helps. Thanks!

Thanks, Sir!

+Jeff M No problemo!

Hey +Zero Cool Apparel. Not a stupid question at all. Are you saying they dont mix on your computer screen or when the colors are getting printed on a shirt?

+Zero Cool Apparel If you're adding the multiply blend mode to the LAYERS are you making sure that the colors you want to mix are on separate layers? Like if the yellow and blue are on the same layer and you set the layer to multiply it wont do anything. But if they are on separate layers and you set one to multiply it should work. In illustrator I usually dont have the colors on separate layers though. I just stack filled shapes on top of each other and set each individual fill to multiply instead. Does that make sense?

artdo mahardhika You're welcome. Yes you can do that. You'll need to change the image to bitmap halftones in photoshop. Its a bit more complicated than what can be described in a comment though. I plan on doing a photoshop series in the future so I will try to cover that.

Yes i know i need to change the image to bitmap halftone.but do you have any advice how can i set the color of my image,so i can get the smooth contrast of darker tone and mid tone(in grayscale) What the PS preset of curves and level should i chose?

artdo mahardhika There isnt a preset. You will need to adjust each photo individually to get it correct. You dont want the mid range level to be so dark that you lose all detail. Like I said its more complicated than a comment can explain. I will try to do a video in the future.

oh ok i'll be waiting for your future explaination. many thanks :)

Thanks a lot Ricardo Carrera! I've never experienced that problem but actually another commenter had the same problem. Check this Adobe forum thread. You may be missing the Adobe PDF PPDs or they accidentally got deleted. forums.adobe.com/thread/1076693 Let me know if that works. Thanks again!!

I know you probably get this question all the time but what kind of printer do you recommend to some one on a budget? Thanks

Angela Izzo Hi Angela! When you are importing your PDF into Photoshop to bitmap each individual color, the first dialogue box has a check box under "Page Options" that says "Anti-Aliased". Make sure "Anti Aliased" is unchecked and you wont get any half-tone effect on any 100% solid colors like your small words might be. Let me know if that is the solution. Thanks Angela!!

Start Screen Printing Now Thank you worked great!

Angela Izzo Awesome! I'm glad it worked!!! Ha I am seriously so upset that I didn't mention that little bit in the video. I've had that option unchecked for so long I forgot. I will add an annotation to the video s that others see it. Thanks for bringing it up!!

+Di Le one of the best and least expensive wide format printers you can get is an Epson 1400 or 1430.

Thanks!

Hi Quentin. You might want to check out my latest video. I show how I do this same thing in CC

Thanks deep roy! I really appreciate that! I think that any good illustration starts with a good sketch. Start sketching on paper with pencil. Get everything roughed in really quick, just shapes and general layout and then keep building it up slowly with details. Scan it in and then all you have to do is get some good lines down and the hard part is already done for you. In my opinion the sketch is key. Inking it in Illustrator becomes the easy part. You can see the preliminary pencils here: dribbble.com/shots/514076-Nukie-Mouse-Draft-1?list=users I hope that helps!!!

yes thank you!..If its ok I have one more question...How do I get those nice sharp lines?...I have made custom brushes but, its not the same.

deep roy are you using a drawing tablet like a wacom tablet or similar? This video shows how to set up a brush in illustrator and what setting to use in photoshop: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nLmUid2Z1Z2tqpc.html I also have an art channel with some timelapse process videos. You can see how I use the pen pressure to vary the line weight and thickness to get interesting lines. Its not a tutorial but seeing it could help: kzfaq.info

thank you!

Hey Nightman. If you can find your install discs it may have Adobe Acrobat or Reader on it and it may need to be reinstalled. Would just need to reinstall Acrobat and it should fix the print drivers for that. Let me know if that works. Thanks!!

I just reinstalled adobe acrobat and it's still not giving me the option on Illustrator? Is there any other way that I could get it to convert the artwork to PDF separations?I've been trying to figure out what the issue is without any luck.

I'm dealing with the same thing, if you find a way please tell me :)

I am also having the same problem and the reinstall didn't work also. Sad face. I can not use the rest of the video because I have been stopped at this point.

Hey Nightman. Try this Adobe Forum post. I believe this has worked for others having the same problem. Let me know if this is it. forums.adobe.com/thread/1076693

If you don't have a RIP program you won't be able to print halftones from illustrator. You need to import the separations into Photoshop and rasterize to get halftones

thanks for suggestion...

Its all good. I actually have a review of the Canon Pixma IX6820 that I currently use. I like it a lot. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o61dZq6oseCVg4k.html

If it's going on a darker colored shirt it would.

How would you go about making that white underlay

+Shaun Brown Hi Shaun. It imports as a raster tif file in illustrator but illustrator will allow you to apply swatch colors to it

Strange, OK I solved the problem... for some reason, you need to make sure to choose under LAYER in PS > NEW LAYER FROM BACKGROUND in order for it to work... If you skip this AI simply treats it as a standard bitmap.

+Shaun Brown hmm I've never had to go that route. Glad it's working for you!

+Leon Taylor do you mean in Illustrator? No you dont need your colors on separate layers but you need to make sure your colors are all spot colors.

+Leon Taylor so you're in the process of opening the PDF created by Preview or Distiller and when you open an individual color in photoshop it is coming in tiny? Make sure when you are opening each color that the resolution is set to something like 300 or higher.

+Start Screen Printing Now Thank you my friend. What is the main advantage of having rip software? Does it just make things simpler? What printer do you use and what kind of clear paper. Thank you so much for replying to me. Seriously, Thank you. You've helped me a lot already.

RIP software will render all of the halftones for you and give you more control over them and send that info straight to the printer from illustrator or photoshop. If you print a relatively large amount of film like most shops do then it would be pretty much impossible to operate without it because it saves massive amounts of time. I dont have a printer at home at the moment. I'm saving up for an Epson 1430 which I recommend for at home use our for a small shop. My old shop is nice enough to let me use their Epson stylus 7800 with ulano 17" wide film.