One Color Distressed Design

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BMurphy688

Discussion Starter · Jul 29, 2010

Hi Guys and Gals,

I have a customer who supplied one color distressed art for a tshirt job... The distressed was generated by the advanced artist product, i believe the distressed is a monochrome bitmap..

I'm have a very difficult time burning a screen to capture his design... can anyone help or point me to a good link on how to burn distressed designs...

Thanks,

M

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chard

· #2 · Jul 29, 2010

burning a distressed design is the same with burning an ordinary spot design..maybe you should post a pic of what you are trying to burn and what problems you are having..

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yeste

· #3 · Jul 29, 2010

yeah,pics,some pics to show what happened

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BMurphy688

Discussion Starter · #4 · Jul 29, 2010

Ok, Here is the front of the shirt that we are trying to burn... It seems as though some of the distressed is just too light to burn....

I've tried a low and high number mesh...

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mrvixx

· #5 · Jul 29, 2010

make sure you have an opaque positive. try and lower your burn time just a bit. It should be a halftone.

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gerry

· #6 · Jul 29, 2010

maybe convert to a black and white image.

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hbprint

· #7 · Jul 29, 2010

is it halftoned? Also, what type of setup do you have as far as light source goes.

hbscreenprint.com

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Skinbus

· #8 · Jul 29, 2010

yeste said:
yeah,pics,some pics to show what happened

I darkened it a bit in Gimp which shows more distress. I'm not sure if I can post it here as we're not to "share files" but if you'd like to see it contact me with a private message.

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chard

· #9 · Jul 30, 2010

@BMurphy
are you just printing that design and exposing it on your screen?if so that is your problem..when burning positives, your positives must contain only color black..if you have gradients you must convert it to halftones..in the case of your design there are two things you could possibly do..one is make the design so that there are no grays and only black and white, and the other is convert it to halftones..

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BMurphy688

Discussion Starter · #10 · Jul 30, 2010

Hi guys,

I've tried both converting to black and white as well as creating halftones...

Halftones gave the best results, but still did not pick up all the distress. (the items outside the txt)..

I spoke with client, and he's happy if we can just get the txt with distress to fly...

For halftones, I'm using ghost, etc...

I'll post pics of a test print...

Thanks for the help.

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Skinbus

· #11 · Jul 30, 2010 (Edited)

Skinbus said:
I darkened it a bit in Gimp which shows more distress. I'm not sure if I can post it here as we're not to "share files" but if you'd like to see it contact me with a private message.

Here's the image darkened.

BMurphy688

Discussion Starter · #12 · Jul 30, 2010

Thanks for the darken version.

So, when using other advanced artist design templates, one must convert to halftones using separations, correct?

Skinbus

· #13 · Jul 30, 2010

Skinbus said:
Here's the image darkened.

All that was done was to put it in GIMP & use the "erode" filter repeatedly which will darken it even more if necessary. If you're not familiar with GIMP, it's a free internet download which equals most of the graphics editing programs.

chard

· #14 · Jul 31, 2010

or you can use photoshop and play with the level adjustment settings..

jsf

· #15 · Jul 31, 2010

This should do it....

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BMurphy688

Discussion Starter · #16 · Jul 31, 2010

WOW, thanks. the darkend versions look great... I'm going to try it today or tomorrow. I have several other jobs i've got to get out of here.

Thanks again.

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