Hey everybody it's Matt with Mikey Designs & Silk Screen here and I had a
request for a video on how to make a underbase for printing colors on top and
that those are requests by Jason and so I'm gonna make a quick little video real
quick just to kind of show how I go about setting up the artwork and
printing that and so what I'm going to use is this artwork here and as you can
see it's going on a dark garment and so I'm just going to grab this artwork and
I'm gonna bring it over to my template that I've created and I'm going to print
this at eleven inches wide okay and so there we are 11 inches wide I'm just
going to cut the artwork and paste it excuse me I don't know what happened
there but so I'm going to cut the artwork and paste it in the center and
since this is how the artwork is going to print I'm gonna go ahead and set it
up that way and you'll see I've already got spot colors made out here over here
in my swatch palette I've got the yellow pink and a grey but in this instance
instead of doing it grey we're gonna print a white so I'm just gonna change
that and call it white and instead of making it an actual white
I'm gonna do about a 15% cyan so I can see you know the actual white color
there and so now what I'm going to do in order to create an under bass is I need
to take all this artwork and make it tell the the computer that I want it to
print out is white okay so right now my artwork is grouped
I'm going to go ahead and hit command shift G and ungroup the artwork and I'm
going to copy the the yellow and the pink here I'm going to hit command C and
copy it now I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna select the artwork I'm going to go
ahead and I'm gonna turn it I'm gonna fill it white so I'm gonna come over
here to my swatch palette and make it white
so now we've got our under bass going and the next step is to basically paste
your your color on top of your your white song and hit command F so we'll
paste it directly on top of that white underbase that we just made and I put it
on a new layer so I can turn it on and off and now the the trick to printing
your color on top of an under base and there not being any white around the
edges is you have to either choke your under base down by two points or you
have to bleed out your color so since we have this white diamond over here I'm
just gonna go ahead and bleed the artwork pass the the white underbase and
how you do that is as you select your your
for in this example of your pink and you want to put a stroke on it and so I'm
going to take paint and I'm going to put a stroke and right now there's just a
one-point stroke on it if I hit undo and redo you can see I put
a stroke on it but when I'm running is about one point all the way around when
it's a stroke and you said at the one point is basically really only half a
point so in order to make that a full point you want to put two in there and
now we'll have a one-point stroke to the outside of the artwork all the way
around and I'm going to go ahead and do that for the yellow as well I'm going to
go ahead and put a yellow stroke on there and turn that the two points and
so now you'll see that there's a stroke on the outside of both the yellow and
the pink if if you now the the next thing we need to do is we're gonna have
to set the the color to overprint and how you do that is you select over print
fill and we also want the stroke Dover print and so we're gonna click over
print stroke if you don't do that then basically your white underbase won't
print the only thing that would print would be this white diamond so by
telling it over print fill you're telling it to print the white underbase
that we have here and also the color on top and one thing if you have
illustrator one thing that's helpful is go to the printing and proofing and you
can select over here where it says over print preview we're gonna select that
and so now we ran over print preview mode
if i zoom in you can see where the actual the yellow bleeds past the actual
white underbase for what will be our white underbase and so that's how you
set up a a white underbase and you print color on top you can either choke it
back or as I did in this example bleed it out a choke the way you would choke
it basically instead of having a stroke here Sarah I removed my my bleed and
basically what you would do is you would select your your white underbase and
then you would take just a white regular white color and put your two-point
stroke on that and now we'll turn our
our colors that are gonna over print back on and you'll see that the the area
that's gonna print here is one point so you know basically it's the same effect
but in this sense since this particular example now how I got it set up I've
choked it down there sometimes you might not want to choke it down when when you
have some artwork that's really thin if you choke it back you might lose some of
your artwork in the underbase and you want your underbase to be your but your
underbase basically will will back up the color that's going on top say for
instance if you're printing on a black shirt and you choke back your artwork
you know the the yellow and the pink isn't going to show up on that that
t-shirt on a black t-shirt so well so let's say for instance there's some
artwork that has some really thin lines we choked it back
and you're not going to really see that part of the artwork because you removed
your underbase underneath it I hope that makes sense and so the next step would
be just to go ahead and to print out your artwork do separations then you
have your white and your pink and you would go ahead and send that to your rib
and one more thing before we go I want to show you how I did this on press
here's my white underbase okay and you'll see that the white underbase went
down apologize I'm trying to get this to show up quicker here and there we go so
my white underbase went down right and then the yellow went down and the pink
right on top of that and here are some close-up pictures of how that actually
looks with the the ink kind of bleeding off the base and here's a close-up of
the yellow you can see where the the yellows bled past the the base here and
so that's how you set up a under base and over printing color on top I hope
this was helpful Jason this is for you and everyone else out there that needs
some help thanks for getting for stopping by and
I'm Matt with Mikey designs and silkscreens
and stop by and check out some more of my videos coming up in the future thanks