how to get my drawings on a silk screen without losing my detail

What program are you using?

If your designs have smooth shading, you may have to sacrifice a little of that detail to halftones if you want it screen printed. If you don't want to do that, you might look into sublimation or heat transfers.

What format are your drawings in now?

I can sacrifice a little detail in exchange for a good print on a shirt...ive been trying to figure out photoshop...thats the program im using to try and convert my images to screen print....kinda lost...lol...am i even on the right track??.... Lol

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would help if you showed us a sample image

I use corel draw more than photoshop however I believe you take your image scan it in, then find the trace program and tweek your lines.

Is there a trace program in photoshop like the one you are referring too??

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Is there a trace program in photoshop like the one you are referring too??

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I maybe wrong but there should be. I think all graphic art programs do. Just a thought did you look it up on youtube to see if someone has a video? Thats where I learned how to do that with corel draw.

Hmmmm....no i didnt but thats a good idea...im going to deff check on that...thanx for ur time and help:thumbup:

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One way to do your seps in photoshop is to use the select color range option and create new layers via copy.

Not sure...im doing them on the samsung note(awsome machine for artist) so really not sure...is there a way i could find out?

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Not sure...im doing them on the samsung note(awsome machine for artist) so really not sure...is there a way i could find out?

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You should check the application you're using on your Samsung Note to see what type of file format you can export to your computer.

Ok, so im no pro with screen printing at all, but I do design tshirts, and if you have really detailed drawings, your going to have to convert them to halftones, so your not printing a whole butt load of colors. You should be able to find video's on youtube, although some printers may want to do that themselves, since its an art in itself to get the haltones to burn on screens correctly.

You could also think about dtg printing. Its great for high detailed shirt..

Are these pencil drawing? If so, you can also use levels and curves adjustments to fine tune the drawing from pencil into "inked" drawing.

Could you possibly post pics of some of your drawings?

I agree if your drawings are detailed like pencil sketches, charcoal, or fine pen/ink, DTG may be best. You can just scan your art and use photoshop or a similar program to save it as a .png file. Then it will have the white paper background be transparent so all that will print will be the drawing part. There are still other ways, but this could be the easiest. I've used both screen printing and DTG for my designs and both gave good results, but I'm leaning more towards DTG.