Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?

[inkbrigade]

So we have an embedded tif in the background. In the foreground is a vector shape at about 40% opacity. Not sure of the best way to deal with this one. I'm gonna give separation studio a shot. Anyone have any other ideas?

[squeezee]

Drop into PS.
Have a look at your cyan channel, my guess is that it will have a perfect separation.

[tpitman]

What color shirts? Is the text vector also?

[Sbrem]

Drop into PS.
Have a look at your cyan channel, my guess is that it will have a perfect separation.

maybe add some of the magenta channel to it as well? Maybe? Might harden the edges a tad.

Steve

[squeezee]

Change to Lab and check the Lightness channel?

[Colin]

Shirt color and number of desired ink colors?  That would dictate my approach.

All the above mentioned methods will work.  Definitely want to sep it in photoshop.

[squeezee]

Here's a sep from the Lab route with a little curve adjustment.

[Command-Z]

Yes, like the others, shirt color has everything to do with it. WHite shirts and printing blue? Blue shirts and printing white?

EIther way, one of the RGB channels should work.

[Artelf2xs]

yeah, first question is what shirt color.... Assuming it is blue.. the rest is easy.
This is how I'd do it....
Convert to grayscale Increase levels for solid black.
duplicate the grayscale to to new channels and invert them.
Apply curves to one for the whitest whites..
Make the other gray......
See attached .psd example

http://tshirtillustrator.com/images/Vq8nc-).psd