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Separation Studio - Tips, Tricks, Questions?
starchild:
Rockers understand that SS don't create halftones your rip does that.. It only sets ink density (less or more ink) in the sep channels. If you require a spot channel then it should be reading 100% coverage in that channel..
So create a channel and take the required info from the channels that make up the spot color info and put it in the channel you created. Set the color that you want it to be and saturate it.. You could use the technic I explained in the previous post to move info from one channel to the next.. Remember to clean up the channels you got the info from..
When you save the file remember to print the channel as a spot.
Yuk...
You gotta get comfortable with SimpleSeps it karate kicks Separation Studio in the nuts..
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mimosatexas:
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--- Quote from: jvanick on March 29, 2014, 09:24:52 PM ---That's when you sample that color in photoshop and use it as a custom color... I love that feature and use it all the time.
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Would you mind going a bit more into detail please on how that process works exactly. Cheers:)
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open your image in photoshop and eyedropper any spot colors and/or any specific ink colors you would like to use in your design. open separation studio and go to Edit>Ink Mapping. On the right side there is a drop down and to the right a button that says New. Click that and name it whatever you want. On the left side at the bottom, click the plus sign. A window will pop up that lets you add a custom color. Do this for all the spot colors or custom colors you want. If you have only one or two custom colors from spots, select them and think about which of the 10 default colors you want to replace with those custom colors, click the little >> button to move the custom color over. If you have a completely custom palette, you can replace all of the colors, or replace two or three or four, then make the remaining colors white or black to limit your palette. Click the Default button in the top right, then click save. Now open you image and it should separate it using the palette you created instead of the default one.
I've only sepped a handful of test images, but this has been INVALUABLE so far. I had a five color image that was all hair colors (basically a bunch of browns and tans), and I was able to sep it with only those tones in seconds. No mess, no fuss, no going through color ranges and masks in photoshop. I tried the same image in Ultraseps and T-seps, which have "earthtone" or "flesh tone" actions, but they failed pretty hard. I'm sure there are ways to make them work, and possibly even to sep to custom channel colors, but it isnt straightforward in the way it is in SepStudio (that I could see).
mimosatexas:
Quick question, anyone know how to choke the underbase either in sepstudio, or in photoshop, in a way that only affects the outside edges of areas where overlayed color will meet open shirt? In other words, it preserves all of the halftoned fades within the art, but chokes in a pixel or two around the outsides?
starchild:
It will go something like this in PhotoShop- select the base, deselect the areas you don't want modified and then do Edit>stroke- center- how much ever pixels and fill with white..
Ultimately how you use the selection tools to define your selection is what's important.. but Shift/Click adds to a selection Alt/Shift/Click removes from a selection.
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shellyky:
--- Quote from: mimosatexas on March 29, 2014, 11:15:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Rockers on March 29, 2014, 09:29:04 PM ---
--- Quote from: jvanick on March 29, 2014, 09:24:52 PM ---That's when you sample that color in photoshop and use it as a custom color... I love that feature and use it all the time.
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Would you mind going a bit more into detail please on how that process works exactly. Cheers:)
--- End quote ---
open your image in photoshop and eyedropper any spot colors and/or any specific ink colors you would like to use in your design. open separation studio and go to Edit>Ink Mapping. On the right side there is a drop down and to the right a button that says New. Click that and name it whatever you want. On the left side at the bottom, click the plus sign. A window will pop up that lets you add a custom color. Do this for all the spot colors or custom colors you want. If you have only one or two custom colors from spots, select them and think about which of the 10 default colors you want to replace with those custom colors, click the little >> button to move the custom color over. If you have a completely custom palette, you can replace all of the colors, or replace two or three or four, then make the remaining colors white or black to limit your palette. Click the Default button in the top right, then click save. Now open you image and it should separate it using the palette you created instead of the default one.
I've only sepped a handful of test images, but this has been INVALUABLE so far. I had a five color image that was all hair colors (basically a bunch of browns and tans), and I was able to sep it with only those tones in seconds. No mess, no fuss, no going through color ranges and masks in photoshop. I tried the same image in Ultraseps and T-seps, which have "earthtone" or "flesh tone" actions, but they failed pretty hard. I'm sure there are ways to make them work, and possibly even to sep to custom channel colors, but it isnt straightforward in the way it is in SepStudio (that I could see).
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wow thank you...ill try this today. i use seperation studio exclusively for our sim process work and never knew about this feature. When they'd give me brown or orange artwork, i'd always just open the PSD in photoshop and change those colors to red or green or blue...something it would pick up.
As far as generate black, i always do 'detailed'....havent had any issues to make me try any of the other options. I usually have to downsize my artwork to about 300 dpi 14x14ish for it to work well. ANd on the adjustments, a lot of times on certain designs i merge the gray with the white underbase screen and run that as light gray (on designs where its a muted red, gray and a touch of white highlights)...after i tweak each screen on the slider adjustments they provide per color, i use dodge/burn or levels in photoshop to take it to where i'd like them to be. the "add/subtract" color in sep studio i feel like adds too much or too little...
great advice in this thread!
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