hey yal,
i have a question for those familar with screen printing and illustrator. i found this link below (which is actually pretty useful in helping with distressing images) but there is something i dont understand.
it pretty much describes how you can turn a texture into a bitmap file in photoshop, transport it to illustrator, change the texture to the same color as the background color, and place that texture layer above the image that your trying to distress, and voila! there you have it.
ok i understand that part, but what i dont understand is, how would one use this in creating seperate films for a silk screen. for example: if you look at the image being used in the tutorial, it looks to me like it would be a two color image (white and a darker blue), so if i was to get a screen made for that image, i would get the white part, and the darker blue, but what i dont understand is that the distressed layer, is basicly a colored layer itself, covering the image. so how would one get films made for this.
is there away to use some type of color seperating in illustrator, to where it would automatically incorporate the distress in the image, and allow you to seperate colors with the distress method?
i hope im explaining this clear, but if not let me explain it another way. if i was to take an image in photoshop, use the selection/color range, and select the dark parts of a distress texture, then use that selection over the image and just press delete, it would give me a destressed effect, i could take it to the screen maker, and get seperate screens made. i understand this method, but i cant grasp it in illustrator.
so can someone check out the link, and tell me if there is a step that im missing to where one could take that image and have films made for seperate colors, and it would still have the distressed effect.
thanks in advance, and any explanation would be appreciated.
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