Hey everybody this is Matt with Mikey Designs & Silk Screen and I'm going to
do a quick little tutorial I'm helping out Will Smith
he has a t-shirt design that he wants printed for his band and he had a
question about how to separate it and this is for it's a t-shirt for his band
and he wants to printed himself on a 4 color press and so I'm going to quickly
run through how to do that or how I would go about doing it okay so I'm in
Photoshop right now and I'm gonna open up the image that will sit me and here
it is on my desktop that's taking my computer a second here it's been on for
a while and got a lot of programs running off it up
okay here we are here's the image as you can see just this looks like it would go
on a black t-shirt that's what I would put it on so let's make sure okay so in
our GP mode and let's check out our image size I'm gonna hit command option
I or you can go to image in size I like to do keyboard shortcuts so it makes
things quicker and so it looks like it's about seven inches wide by eight inches
high we're gonna raise this up to 12 inches normally you don't want to raise
up but I imagine this is what we have to work with and so I'm gonna go with 12
inches let's see let's see what size we come to you know I guess it just depends
on what size wheels flash is if you have a 16 by 16 flash I would go with 12
inches hi if you have a flash that's bigger
than that let's go to 14 inches I have a flash bigger net so I'm just gonna put
14 inches in there and now that we've enlarged it a little bit I'm gonna go to
sharpen and do it unsharp mask just kind of bring back some of the sharpness that
was lost razzing the image up which again really isn't a good thing but
sometimes you got to do what you got to do okay now we're gonna hit command
shift s and we're gonna save this as here's how you save it as and we're
gonna call this in to go away and and we're gonna save this as a tiff we're
gonna keep it an RGB mode and I'm gonna save this to the desktop normally I
would put these things in a job folder but since this is just a quick tutorial
for we'll we don't need to create a job folder okay so we're gonna go ahead and
open up that TIFF file I'm gonna go to my desktop or the follows that open up
my tiff now keep in mind that this will be printed on a 4 color press so we have
to minimize this to the four colors and what I'm using right now is separation
studio I'd like to use separation studio when
printing images on to dark garments with you know different gradients if it's
photorealistic like this then that's what I would use a wouldn't use you
could use for color process with a white underbase but you're gonna get better
results using this program in most cases not all cases sometimes white underbase
under CMYK will work better than this but so looking at this we've got white
there's a little bit of red a lot of blue some yellow doesn't look like any
purple or any green no turquoise and there's what would be gray and a white
highlight color what we're gonna do is we're gonna combine the white top and
the gray down into our underbase because we only have four colors of work with so
we're gonna go to channels we're gonna merge our gray and there was nothing in
the purple so we can just go ahead and hit merge purple and there was nothing
in the turquoise we're gonna go ahead and just hit merge just in case there's
something on those layers I didn't see anything or on that specific spot color
Channel so we've got it down to six colors so far the green doesn't look
like anything's there I'm gonna right-click on it and I'm just gonna
delete the channel okay so now we got five colors what we're gonna go ahead
and do is we're just gonna merge the white top to the under base and how
we're gonna do that so we're gonna go to channels applied and we're selecting the
white top because that's where our source is coming from and want to apply
that to our under base we're gonna hit multiply
we're gonna hit OK you can see that brightens it up a little bit I'm gonna
come over here and I'm just going to delete the white top and you can see
that we lost some of the brightness I'm gonna hit command Z which is undo so
you can kind of see where we should be I'm going to hit command shift Z to go
right back to where we are at and I'm gonna right-click on the under base
channel and I'm going to adjust the channel to bring some that brightness
bag and in order to have some sort of basis of comparison I'm going to pull
this image up and so we're just gonna add a little more white in there and you
see if you go really extreme what it's doing we don't want all that we're just
trying to get a little closer to the image right next to it and that's
looking pretty good one of things I like to check for is to make sure the white
is 100% up here on your under base if it isn't let's say for instance if it's
reading 95 percent what you want to do is right click and hit a just channel
and pull this up about 5 to 6 percent and then you'll get your 100% but looks
like we got a nice bright white here and we got it down to 4 colors we got our
white underbase our red blue and our yellow so I'm gonna go ahead and save
this as an EPS and we're gonna go to our desktop here and to go away bands how
we're gonna save it and it is saving
okay so next thing we're gonna do is go to illustrator open up our t-shirt
registration template which you can get for free from WWE my key designs calm
you'll see a little link up there at the top of my website so I'm going to go to
my art layer and I'm gonna go to file in place
got my desktop get my EPS file and it's pulling it in all the spot colors now I
got once I've got the image brought in I'm gonna select keep my image selected
and I'm gonna go to line artboard and I'm just gonna sit her it went to my
artboard now we're gonna hit command P which is print go to our output and
you'll see that all we have is our white underbase our red blue and gold and
you're gonna want to print it in this exact order one two three and four you
can kind of experiment around a little bit but I would suggest initially
starting off with the order that they that the program sets are out excuse me
sir separates it out in need to eat some cantaloupe today or something
and so that's about it you would hit print and I would use two hundred and
thirty mesh maybe even a 200 mesh for the the under base but I would stick
with 230 mesh across-the-board and print it either at 42 dpi or 45 dpi which an
accurate you can go to your setup here and I'll show you real quick then you
gotta set up and make sure a lot of times I like to do 42 dpi still get
great quality and I like to use ellipse rounds a pretty good one too but I think
I'm able to hold the ellipse and get more detail well that's it um next thing
we do is just hit print and then you've got your your film that would come out
and just make sure your page information is selected so that way it'll tell you
what colors at the yeah it'll leave that information at the
top of the film and then just expose your images into your screen and set it
up see how it works out for you I hope this help will email me let me know if
you have any questions and you'll have a good one