Great Separations Video

[Artelf2xs]

In fact it is funny you should ask as I am currently doing a sep via calculations that is very similar to that image....

I simply calculate the RGB channels against themselves to get my primary colors. Here it is just yellow and red. The I use calculations agains those two to create the orange....
Copy the whole thing to a new inverted channel for white and apply my " Curves " Magic to get the colors to blend and tone down softly into the black shirt.

[JasonMoore]

Man...I really need to learn how to do seps like this....I've been stuck in straight vector artwork mode since I got into this business in 95....seeing the artwork above with the Phoenix gets me excited to learn something new for a change

[screenxpress]

Would love to see a little tutorial video on how you did that.

[JasonMoore]

Would love to see a little tutorial video on how you did that.

I agree! =)

[Artelf2xs]

Actually I ran calculation on it to pull out the colors..... then hand tweeked it..... I was really not happy with the seps and asked Dan for his opinion and assistance....

He sent some really sweet channels,,,,, No guess as to how did it? with curves alone maybe?

I used those as a base.... and tweeked it some more. THANKS DOT!!!!!!!

I'll post it when it prints in progression.

[screenxpress]

Actually I ran calculation on it to pull out the colors.....

Thanks, but that's the part i would have loved to get a tute on.

[Artelf2xs]

Quote from: Artelf2xs on Today at 11:13:49 AM
Actually I ran calculation on it to pull out the colors.....

Thanks, but that's the part i would have loved to get a tute on.

It's really quite easy. we used to run calculations in the old days to get the layer effects. basically you can add, subtract, screen, overlay etc one channel against the other .....
This really works great for pulling out red.... here are the basic color steps for your primary colors. In RGB mode...
• subtract green from blue to a new channel and that is your yellow.
• Subtract the red from the green to get your red channel.
• Subtract the blue from the red to get your blue channel.

that's the primaries....