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Help with B/W artwork
I have been trying all day to get his picture into a useable format unsuccesfully. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this to print correctly.
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Re: Help with B/W artwork What is the problem you are actually having?
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Re: Help with B/W artwork When I go to make a screen, I am losing a ton of detail (due to the gray areas letting the emulsion harden behind them). Alot of what you see are shades of gray. When i go to vectorize it, it has a hundred different shades of white to black. I have smart designer, but when I go to make it into just a black and white image, it doesnt stop..lol
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Re: Help with B/W artwork How big is the source image?
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Re: Help with B/W artwork Unfortunately smaller than the printed piece. What do you mean by half toning it?
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Re: Help with B/W artwork Send me your source file...
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Re: Help with B/W artwork sorry bout quoting u..im new to this whole forum thing
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Re: Help with B/W artwork Corel x3 and smart designer. And don't worry about the newbie thing as i am right with ya.
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Re: Help with B/W artwork you have to set your frequency and angle of the black and that will make the gray parts print in half tone which will then expose correctly
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Re: Help with B/W artwork The source looks too small to effectively screen down.
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Re: Help with B/W artwork Thanks guys for all your help. Will work on finding the right source this weekend!
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Re: Help with B/W artwork I have tried to resample it 400%.
Following that rerendering (anisotropic shock filtering) in order to simplify it.
Output is in four index colors.
Used programs
Greycstoration and
gmic .
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