southerndownfan

Hello all I have a couple of question and hopefully someone can help. I am starting a small screen printing biz and I am having problems with color separations. I have adobe photoshop 6.0 . I will include a link or picture of my graphic. Bacially I have a 2 color design and need to separate the two colors and make them black letters on white so I can make two different screens. Can someone give me a step by step with this. Thanks.

if the picture doesnt show here is a link
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b8...coversmall.jpg

 

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Unik Ink

I use fastfilms to do separations in Photoshop. I don't know how to do manual channel seps. I do most of my work in spot color in Illustrator.

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Fluid

make a duplicate of the color image.
Convert to grayscale and invert this is your white underbase

go back to the color file

use color range and select the red. Adjust the slider until you get the selection you want. Click ok.

Save this selection as a spot channel. Name and color the channel red - solidity to 15%
Create a new spot channel, name it white and color white. - solidity to 85%

copy the white plate and paste in the new channel you named white

here are you seps.

If you add a new channel above the two sep plates, fill black and solidity to 100% this will mimic your black t-shirt

try a google search for "channel separations photoshop" or "photoshop channel separations" for more info

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