[pacificthinktees]

Hello, everyone

I have this image here that my customer would like to use in place of the letter "O". It's going to be fairly small (about 1"x1" when printed). I'm trying to save her some money and myself some time by making this all 1 image and changing the lighter green to halftones. I do not have Accurip software. What would you recommend?

Thanks!

 

[InkedApparel]

you can use Photoshop to convert this image to halftones..what I would do is use the levels on it to darken the solid black a bit then do the conversion. I made a short video on how to convert a 1 color to halftones..see link below.

convert to halftone

Inked

 

[InnerLoop]

Hey Inked, thanks for the tutorial. I have a couple questions. I couldn't see some of the numbers and just wanted to verify what they were. After you converted to grayscale and went to Bitmap mode what was that Output value? I guess that's the only number i really had a hard time seeing. My other question is you when you printed you went to AccuRip. I'm not really familiar with AccuRip and don't have it. Do you need this to print Haltones or can I just print using my Canon MP620? I just realized I have one other question as well about the Angle when you used the halftone screen option in Bitmap mode. I have heard people talking about halftones and angles. What is this? Does it actually have something to do with the angle of your screens on your press when printing your halftones? If so how do you set the angles of your screens properly for printing the halftones or am I just confusing myself? Thanks again.

 

[pacificthinktees]

Great tutorial, thank you. This may sound like a REALLY stupid question but once you convert it to grayscale, how would you make a digital mockup showing the green? Is this where I would use some sort of mask? I can't do a color overlay on it which is how I usually add color so that my customer can see what the final product will look like? Thank you!

UPDATE:
Convert back to RGB mode...duh!?

 

[printingray]

This was really a not tough job!! You just need the small size only nothing else for this purpose you can use any software which have ability to re-size image. Like Office picture Editor this is not loss the quality of the picture.

 

[InkedApparel]

Hey Inked, thanks for the tutorial. I have a couple questions. I couldn't see some of the numbers and just wanted to verify what they were. After you converted to grayscale and went to Bitmap mode what was that Output value? I guess that's the only number i really had a hard time seeing. My other question is you when you printed you went to AccuRip. I'm not really familiar with AccuRip and don't have it. Do you need this to print Haltones or can I just print using my Canon MP620? I just realized I have one other question as well about the Angle when you used the halftone screen option in Bitmap mode. I have heard people talking about halftones and angles. What is this? Does it actually have something to do with the angle of your screens on your press when printing your halftones? If so how do you set the angles of your screens properly for printing the halftones or am I just confusing myself? Thanks again.

Glad I could help!

as far as the output value goes...it should be at 300 dpi or greater..I usually use 600 but that is up to you.

if you convert to halftones with Photoshop then you dont need to print thru a rip such as Accurip...although in my opinion accurip does a much better job with the halftones than photoshop does.

when you hear people talk about halftones and angles , what they mean is the angle of the dot in relation to each other dot...for example.
you print the first dot at lets say 22.5 degree angle..then the next dot is printed at 52.5 degree angle and so on, until all the colors are printed....it is kind of hard to explain without a picture.....hope you understand !

Inked