Sunday, December 6, 2015

Separations for New Movies

Last month I was commissioned to separate a couple of designs for upcoming movies.  Nothing difficult as far a separations, but very flattered to do so. Each were about 10,000 shirts for the initial order.








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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Manual Simulated color Separation of a 9 Color Design on a Dark T-.Shirt

This is a design for an annual event that I have separated for many years. The client works with 3D models and then brings the images into Photoshop to compose a T-shirt design. My job is to separate the colors to print on the press. I do this manually without a separation program. This one took me about 2 hours.

Original Photoshop Design



You have to think of color separations like the "Transporter" from Star Trek. It takes molecules, breaks them apart and sends them to a destination where it puts them back together again. With color separation, you take a design and decide how many colors need to print on the press that will simulate the original image. This requires a little experience and an eye for color. This particular design, I decided was 9 colors. So the goal is to break the design down into those 9 colors then reassemble those colors when they print on the press to end up with the image on the shirt.

Below is the sequence that the design prints on the press and is very similar to how it looks as it's printing. These images are demonstrating how each plate looks individually as the design comes builds back together.

Base White

Red

Pink

Yellow

Light Cyan

Blue

Based down Black for Mixing

Highlight White

25% Medium Black

Dreamscapes

Here's a design I created that sold today for a concert theme called Dreamscapes. The design describes  3 types of dreams. Horror, flying and falling.

I'll post the separations and maybe a shirt when it goes to print!




If you are interested in learning to do do this yourself without a software program that cost a lot and can't compare to what you can do, then download the book to guide you as you learn to do manual color separations in Photoshop Channels!

Friday, June 26, 2015

9 Color Simulation Process on Black Shirts

This was a design we printed at Sunline yesterday. Normally, it would have been an 8 color print, but there was so much going on in the white with the graphics and in the photo, we decided to split the HL White, the solids from the halftones so we could control the opacity of the ink, which made it a 9 color print.

This was Color Separated from a flattened image.  Base white, Pink, Yellow, Green, Lt. Cyan, Blue, 10% Black and two HL Whites.




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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

10 Color Simulated Process on Black

This is a 10 color separation by artist Brent Wright. The first image is a shot of the Photoshop separations. The second image is the actual print on the shirt. I thought this was quite remarkable!



10 Colors.  It was printed one cycle with two flashes.  The flashes were after the white base and after the 10% black.  The 25% black then the HL white followed the last flash.  The HL white we used was very diluted, around 15% so we would still get the slight yellow showing through and also not kill the cyan in the lower flowers.

-Brent Wright


Thanks for sharing this Brent!




Friday, April 17, 2015

Illustrator Design in Progress:



Below is a Mermaid that I have been working on in my spare time. I have been experimenting in different styles to find one I like. This is all inked in Illustrator. I have the background turned off to prevent from distraction while I work on the foreground!