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Hi everyone,hope you all doing fine
I started out a few weeks months ago with my home printing business and got a couple of jobs from customers,easy spot colors and text.I have fastfilms which helps out sometimes but isnt really good for simple designs in my opinion.I even got vector magic which doesnt really live up to the hype.
Now i received a jpeg from a customer who is quite influential and proudly south african,where i live.They want to deal with grassroots printers/man in the street..
I am scared/blocked/excited/stumped/terrified/confident/brainless....
as to how to color separate this file and it looks so easy.
I need to tender a quote on 27 t shirts before tomorrow and then they will let me know.
A timeless question,I ask ,how do i color separate this 128kb jpeg in photoshop cs3 easily?
You will not believe the help your replies give as this job means a lot to me.
Sorry for the over dramatical,thanks in advance
Re: i really need to separate this file,please help.
.JPG images always make me cringe. Depending on what the design and final print will look like you maybe able to do a good job with some image editing before separating the design.
How many colors is this design suppose to be?
Is the jpg image already sized to the desired print size?
Re: i really need to separate this file,please help.
They sent you a jpg of the design placed on a t-shirt? (the way it would be in a catalog) If so i would hope they have an original design file at higher resolution, preferably in .psd format.
Re: i really need to separate this file,please help.
ahahaha... such a small image... yoh... just enlarge it to the size you want to... using free transform.(ctrl+t) then,, adjust its brightness and contrast,, using (ctrl+L) or (ctrl+M)..
then just sepatare it using the wand tool...see my tutorial on how to do this PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING .. and some of my designs moshroomclothing.tk i used adobe cs3... hope that helps...^_^
Re: i really need to separate this file,please help.
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Originally Posted by tukmol
ahahaha... such a small image... yoh... just enlarge it to the size you want to... using free transform.(ctrl+t) then,, adjust its brightness and contrast,, using (ctrl+L) or (ctrl+M)..
then just sepatare it using the wand tool...see my tutorial on how to do this PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING .. and some of my designs moshroomclothing.tk i used adobe cs3... hope that helps...^_^
I dont think so with a low res small jpeg of a design on a tee. The OP needs real artwork quality files.
Re: i really need to separate this file,please help.
They should have the original files, however if they don't this is workable (but not preferred!)
Aside from the ball, there are no real gradients. so take your images and scale them up to the appropriate size.
Make your selections (colors) and save them into alpha channels. once they are in alpha channels and grayscale you can run a blur on them. After that select the whole alpha channel and open your curves window, and move your sliders all the way over (well you can't go all the way but as far as you can). this should end up with a decent hard edge.
For the ball gradient.. select the whole ball and move it into alpha channel, do the same processes as above (it will destroy the gradient!). then when you have a clean edge around the ball, go back to original file and select around the gradient, copy and past into your alpha channel over the messed up gradient.
There will be some cleaning up around the deer and text there.
That would be one way..but it would still be better to have the original files!
-Josh
Re: i really need to separate this file,please help.
Bottom line. It has to be recreated. There is no way to give a quality print off those images. You are setting yourself up to fail if you even attempt it. Someone somewhere created those layouts. If you can't get those and your not prepared to recreate it let the job walk away. It's not worth printing if the jobe looks bad and you don't get paid.
i really need to separate this file,please help. 
