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Need help getting this effect on tshirt...
Hi i need help getting this airbrush look on a tshirt from a regular picture to
How would i go about getting this effect and how many screens will i need 4 or 6? Oh yeah with out the rhinestones...
how will you guys go about doin this?
Thanks in advance...
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... To me this looks like it would work best with a 2-color print using halftones. White and green on a black surface.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... Far as I know that is a White discharge with green.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... it also could be 3 colors underbase black halftones and green
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... I think a 3 color, white, flash, green, flash, white. You could make it a 2 color probably or as many as 4-5 if you wanted to get really flashy with it.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... It's at least 3 colors- white-cool grey-green. More than likely it was done with 2 greys,white,and 2 shades of green, and maybe even a black printer.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... You'll have to use halftones, only way with all the fades...
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... I would love to learn if someone can replicate this same thing with screens. But if you're going the
DTG way, without rhinestones, this is a walk in the park.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... It's airbrushed art-but it's a screenprinted shirt. How do I know? Because I used to sell them- they had 100's of them on Broadway a few years ago.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... That would be fairly easy to replicate by screen printing, shouldn't be a problem at all to make it look great. I think it would look better screen printed than
dtg , imo.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... haven't done too much halftone cause we're into plastisol transfers, just started a couple of months back. how many screens would you guesstimate this peice to be if you were doing only white..?
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... with just white, I would just use two screens.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... I don't think just white is gonna get it. Theres too much dark shadow detail to depend on 1-3% halftone dots to create the subtlety. I've tried.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... The best way to reproduce this is to use as many grays as you can. I would use white, and at least 3 grays and a green for the money. We print similar designs often and use multiple grays. Attached are some pics of prints we have printed that use at least 2 grays, plus an under and top white.
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Re: Need help getting this effect on tshirt... What software do you use? any add-ons? I use the live trace on Illustrator for greyscale, but i'd need at least 9 shades of grey to come close to what you're doing and still it isn't as clean.
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