Hello, I'm new here so let me tell you a little bit about myself. I run a small silk screening business as a student in highschool. I recieved the funding from a business plan compitition and I've been at it for about a month now. It was love at first sight when I ran into this website and this is where my thread-virginity wil be lost lol.
I have a job that I'm having troubles with. I realy have no idea how to get a pencil crayon look with screen printing ): I added the image to this thread, if anyone could give me a pointer or two on how to make this look as close as possible on a t-shirt, it would be greatly appreciated.
Hmmm I am not sure, but if you would like I can move this over to the screen printing section, where you would probably find more people that know how to do it there.
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Red, blue, green, purple. You could print it CMYK but there really isn't a reason to.
It will look better as spot color with halftones. Use the blue to make the dark sections
on the green and red.
This may be better in the graphics section. The trick is in the separations. We would separate this in photoshop using the color selection and pull out the colors you want to print. green, orange, pink and navy, Using the navy to shade the green. Depending on the screens being used, print the separations at 35 dpi and print wet on wet. Good luck.
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A classic example of a design being done without thought of printing. It looks good but will be hard to get right.
You could do the blue & red as spots and the green/pink picture as four colour process. You could stick to four colour process for everything, you could do it simulated process, you could do it with indexed colours. Whichever way there are a lot of screens.
A classic example of a design being done without thought of printing. It looks good but will be hard to get right. You could do the blue & red as spots and the green/pink picture as four colour process. You could stick to four colour process for everything, you could do it simulated process, you could do it with indexed colours. Whichever way there are a lot of screens.
While it's a lot of screens, this would be the best way to make it look good. The crayon part has too many variables in shades of red and green to get good results from spot colors, and doing the text and border in process may show the halftone dots at the edges of the text, whereas solid spot colors will stay sharp, especially if the border and text are output as vector.
Thanks for the pointers and sorry about the delayed answer, holdidays with the family.
Could somebody give me the rundown on four colour process? I'm having trouble finding any tutorials. I'm quite new at all of this and I wouldnt know the first thing about turning this into halftones :P Or is there an easier way to do this? I want to know exactly what I'm doing before I order the ink because i think we all know it is costly to start up a business and every bit counts.
I have photoshop and illustrator CS4, and 4 screens if that helps. I am able to get more screens if needed.
P.S.
the t-shirts are going to be yellow.
Thanks again everyone,
Dylan
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How would I make this logo printable? 
