 Re: color seperating, distress, and illustrator
Dave, the concept behind distress is to make the image look 'old'.
Walk thru the steps but try it on a line of text.
(Grab a free texture, convert to grayscale, adjust the levels, make a bitmap with diffusion dither, save as .tif)
Open Illustrator, make a word, 'DAVE' in all caps, about 400 pts big. Leave it black for now.
Place your tiff file. It should look like a bunch of black spatter all over your page. You can resize it if you need to. The .tiff now adds black to the white pallet, not the affect we want. Dave is still solid black. Now for the fun. With the placed tif still selected, click on the white color swatch in the color pallet. Ta Da, the pallet is now clean, and 'Dave' is full of holes. (not you of course) In the tutor, they hid the mess by selecting the background color. For our test, the background color is white, so we chose white.
Dave looks like a bad print job (distressed) If you want it on a shirt, you would print it out on your black and white printer, take it to your screen printer and tell him what color ink you want DAVE to be. (White ink on a black shirt, or Red ink on a white shirt etc) When you get it back, whatever was black on the printout is now screenprinted on the shirt.
If you had two colors for your DAVE design, you can create the second color image or text you need on a second layer, print out the second layer (color) by it self and give two sheets to the screen printer. One black and white printout for each color of your design.
Page one would be a distressed DAVE, and the second sheet might be the text "ROCKS" that you want in a different color.
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