What is up everybody it is Matt with Mikey Designs so we have a tutorial on
how to do a greyscale image on black t-shirts that requires three colors
coming up welcome back everyone if you are new to the channel be sure to
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our other videos we're going to show you how to do essentially a separation its
simulated process using separation studio we're gonna use a combination of
separation studio and Photoshop and illustrator as well and let me show you
guys what we got going on here okay so here is our artwork this is one of our
clients two wild collection you know should check them out they're really
cool fear into oddities and so here's the artwork that the client has provided
and the reason we're going to do this in essentially three colors we're gonna do
a white base a gray and then another white and I'll show you why you can see
all these kind of grayscale transitions if you tried doing that with one screen
could make it work but doing it with three separate colors is going to make
it look that much better especially these areas here so let me show you how
I go about doing that first things first I know I want this about 14 inches high
our maximum print size is 12 by 15 but let's see what size this ends up coming
out to we'll change this to and I just want to image size and did command
option I you can go here to image and then image size and I'm gonna change
this over to inches so it's pretty high resolution 300 dpi six by eight almost
nine inches so I'm going to resize this thing
the resample selection here so basically we're going to keep the resolution to
whatever it ends up being let's make this 14 inches tall so that almost gives
me almost 10 inches wide which is pretty good
it'll be about this wide on the shirt so let's give that a try
189 resolution not too bad could be better but I think this will work just
fine what I'm going to do next is I'm going to take my levels I'm going to hit
command l or you can go to image adjustments and then levels right here
I'm gonna take my black selector select my black and what that does it makes it
a true 100 percent in black and then I'm gonna grab this little white selector
here and that's going to make sure whatever is supposed to be white is a
100% white we're gonna hit okay we're pretty much
all set as far as the preparation goes using photoshop so I'm gonna go ahead
and save this out and we just want to maybe we want to make sure it's an RGB
it's an RGB so I'm gonna go ahead and save this as a tiff into the clients
folder and then hit OK now that we have saved our image out of Photoshop we are
now in separation studio and guys if at any point if I lose you feel free to
leave a comment if you just want to say hello leave a comment and so what we're
gonna do now we're gonna open this up in separation studio just hit command o or
to learn your quick keys or just opening things up makes things a lot faster and
I just launched this program I don't have the fastest computer so bear with
me for a moment okay here is our file we're gonna go ahead and open that and
now while we are in separation studio we just want to make sure that our t-shirt
color is black this is what I'm talking about and you also have to make some
fine adjustments to really get this to work well so all these colors you see
here red blue gold purple green turquoise we are not going to use any of
that because you can see there's no information there whatsoever as I click
on them click on the under base you see your under base you click on your gray
you can see how much gray is here and then last but not least our white top so
I'm gonna so what I'm going to do is just go through each one of these
channels and delete them and one of the cool things about this program is you
can right-click views film and that's essentially how it will print out on
your film positive so I'm gonna go here and once again click through these and
see that there is nothing there so I'm gonna go through here and delete each
one of these channels that I do not need
okay now that we have each one of these channels deleted we're gonna kind of
fine-tune this a little bit so I'm going to zoom in a little bit and I'm just
hitting command + to zoom in and we're going to take a look at each one of
these channels to see if there's any kind of adjustment that we can make
you'll see there is the color values over here and generally if I'm wanting
this to be a bright white I want this under bass here to read 100%
so what I'm gonna have to do is adjust bad by 17% so I'm gonna go to the under
bass right click on it and then adjust channel and I'm going to add we do 17%
but really the 95 to 100% range tends to fall off anyways so let's let's bump it
up by 12 maybe even 13 and then hit OK and see what we get now now let's scroll
over this it looks like we have about 93 94 and hit command Z I'm gonna undo that
I'm gonna go back and bump it up just a little more let's try let's try 15 see
that work where that gets us I mean sometimes even though you're justing it
by that that 15% it doesn't always equate to it reading what it's gonna say
here so you kind of have to do it and move and see what happens because I'm
not trying to boost underbase too too much okay it looks like we got about 9 7
98% not gonna be able to hold those 2 and 3% dots not with my setup I have a
multi-point exposure unit so those things will just end up really just
disappearing the light sources making its way around
those dots so they're gonna disappear and then the next thing I'm going to do
I'm gonna go back and change this to view a zinc okay there we go now I'm
gonna scroll over the top of this guy you can see that there's about a 1% in
gray here we don't want that and then our white top is reading 96% we
actually do want that to be a hundred percent so I'm going to go in here and
I'm going to adjust this channel by about four or five hit okay okay now we
got a hundred percent white on our top so that way when we do go to print or
printing a 100 percent on top of one hundred percent giving us a nice bright
print we're going to use two thirty mesh screens and output this at forty five
dpi now let me go back to my gray take a look see what we got going on here
because the image was somewhat low res you kind of getting this a little bit of
this feather around the edge let me just go ahead and select some of these hard
areas and I'm just using this selection tool here almost like you're doing
Photoshop I'm gonna hold shift select some more of these areas that do not
need that gray in there I'm gonna grab this as well and come over here and just
keep on grabbing the rest of it
okay now that I have every single part selected where I kind of want to excuse
me remove some of the gray out of it I'm gonna go to migrate channel and I'm
gonna right-click on it select a just channel and I'm just gonna pull back the
low saturation fader here until it's gone okay that looks pretty good to me
hit command D to deselect it and go back to our overview and now that looks
pretty nice I think we are ready to go ahead we're gonna go ahead and save this
and print out some film so stick around when you save this file it's gonna save
it as an EPS I'll show you what's gonna happen whenever you bring it into your
illustrator okay our file is saved I have my t-shirt registration template
open and ready to go I'm on my art layer and if you need help with the t-shirt
registration template go over to our website I'll include a link in the
description where you can get that for five bucks that's right it's five bucks
okay so now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to place the art we just separated
onto our artboard I'm gonna do that by hitting command shift P or you can just
go to file in place I like to use my quick commands as always you should
learn your quick commands your quick keys helps get the job done a lot
quicker so here is our EPS file I'm going to hit place and what it's doing
right now is is bringing in all that information I'm gonna place this on the
artboard real quick and then I'm gonna go to my align pallet make sure it's
aligned to artboard and there we have it it's all nice Center lined on the
artboard we have our Center marks you'll see here that we do have a white
underbase a gray and then a white top you'll see that it has
number one two and three we're gonna print in that order so we're gonna print
flashed underbase and then we're gonna print the gray and white went on wet
that way those colors mixed together it also increases production we're gonna
have to flash it again you can flash h1 but there's no need to okay so at this
point I'm going to go ahead and save this file should always save your work
actually let me call this setup like to call all of my Free Press document setup
it's that way if we get a reorder we can just find the file and just hit print
and if we need to do more film make sure it's an AI file we're going to go ahead
and save that
and one thing I forgot to do that I'm gonna go back and do just really quickly
sometimes he's saying slipped my mind I'm gonna go back and pull all the gray
out of their name here so let me adjust that I'm gonna pull it back until it's
gone okay so that will be a more crisp looking font I'm just gonna hit save
because we've already saved it and what's gonna happen is illustrators are
gonna update it automatically look at that isn't that smart are we just a
smart program that we pay money for okay now I'm gonna go hit command P file
print when you're separating or printing your films we have AK Europe in an
output you want to be sure it's set to separations and not composite our film
size is 13 by 19 and then when you go to output you'll see that you have your
under base your gray and then your white one of the things I like to do is
include my page informations that way when you do print your films
it will include that information at the top and I'll show you what I'm talking
about and this will burn it into the screen so that way you know what screen
is what and you'll be able to print that in order just like you separated your
white base gray then your white top so I'm going to go ahead and send this over
to the printer and we'll be right back and I'll show you it printing out before
I do send it says printer let me show you my settings in a cue rip so we have
accurate black pearl I'm going to edit configuration we have an all black ink
system this is 1440 by 720 dpi droplet weight 7 I like to use a round dot you
what the hell we'll be using the ellipse this time and then the angle I keep it
at default twenty two point five forty-five LPI we're gonna use again two
thirty mesh screens so that is the setup now I'm going to go ahead and print this
thing out and we'll show you how the film comes out
here are our film separations you can see that each one of them have their
corresponding number along with the name of the ink that needs to be used and
here you can see the little half tones that print it out so we're gonna go
ahead and expose this and put it on breasts thanks for tuning in guys I
really appreciate it in the next video we'll set everything up on press and
show you the final results of the actual print if you're in the market for
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