A Guide to The Art of T-Shirt Color Separation: 2014

Friday, October 17, 2014

A Step-By-Step Guide for T-Shirt Color Separation in Photoshop

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If you are a beginner or an intermediate artist and want to know how to do art for t-shirts and have the tools and knowledge that you will help guide you, then The Art of T-Shirt Color Separation is the best and least expensive way to start.

Photoshop is a fantastic program for designing art for T-Shirts. It is also a great tool to build Color Separations in Channels to make that design a great image on a T-Shirt. This book teaches how to accomplish that goal in simple and easy step-by-step exercises, using different methods to make these separations come back together on the press to duplicate the design on the computer.

Discover How To:

• Separate colors for printing on black shirts

• Cross between RGB and CMYK channels

• Simulated and 4 color process

• Splitting channels to place separately into a vector program

• Outputting channels as an EPS composite from a vector program

• Create halftones without a rip software program

• Understanding the characteristics of individual channels

• The tools, palettes, hot keys and much more

No DVD! FULL Photoshop files are downloaded from the cloud at the click of a mouse as you need them for each exercise.

Mitch Different is a working artist and Art Director. He teaches and mentors talented artists who want to learn a field of art that is not covered in formal training at colleges and institutes. His resume' includes his own company, Be-Bop T-Shirt Shop, Carrousel Productions, Big Ball Sportswear, Sunline products, Different Creative and his freelance art on the Web. He currently resides in Katy, Texas.

The images below are all separations in Photoshop:

Much thanks to Terry Combs and Aaron Montgomery for inviting me as a guest on their

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podcast show on January 10th.

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Workshop for Live Hands-on Training

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Special Thanks to Deborah Sexton for the great press! She has been a strong supporter for the Screen Printing Industry for many years through her articles and writing for many of the industry's top publications. . . Google her: Deborah Sexton

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Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Download a Quick-Guide Book to the Art of T-Shirt Color Separation in Photoshop Channels

. . . The Gotta have book. -DOT-TONE-DAN-

Why buy an expensive Separation Program when you can

do it yourself?

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The Art Of T-Shirt Color Separation is now available for e-readers, such as an iPad and computers that can view a PDF format. The PDF incorporates hyperlinks to download the files and PSD's for each specific Exercise.

This Week's Print - 9/25/14

Katy Tigers are the BIG team in Texas. With 5 State titles, they are seeking the 6th one and this design is one that we submitted today. I will update on a shirt when it prints.

This Week's Print - 9/17/14

Here is the actual print from the separations below. Not bad!

This Week's Separation - 9/13/14

The client sends a picture of what they would like to have designed for printing on a shirt. They would like to have the football players inside the word, "OFFENSE".

Of course, we spiff up the design a little bit to make it sell better on a shirt.

After approval begins the color separation process into a 6 color print as shown below.

Once the colors are separated in Photoshop Channels, they are placed in Illustrator as a composite with the legend and registration marks, then printed to film.