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Did anyone get a chance to look at this? Still wondering what's the best way when wanting to halftone something thats only 4" wide but contains a lot of detail.
What percentage at 65lpi, thats the question. are you creating the halftones or is the seps/rip creating them. should let the rip create them.Shane
Way too many and the separations have already been created, it's just making the halftones when it's going to be such a small chest print has me stumped.
Quote from: kidink on November 17, 2020, 11:39:46 AMWay too many and the separations have already been created, it's just making the halftones when it's going to be such a small chest print has me stumped.You do the same process for both the 15" wide print as the 4" wide print.A 65 LPI dot is the same size wether printing a 4" image or printing a Boeing 747, it is 65 Lines Per Inch.You won't be able to get the same details on the left chest as the back print, for the left chest I would lighten the darker ranges and darken the lighter and try to simplify the image a bit to make the transitions bigger. To answer your question, you can scale down the image to 4" whatever DPI you want doesn't make a difference (higher is better but 300DPI is fine), then you'll create your bitmaps at 300 DPI / 65 LPI / Elliptical Dots / Whatever Angle you commonly use. The benefit to photoshop is that you can see that output instantly and adjust from there on what you know will happen on press.If I were tasked with printing the left chest, I'd try to make it look more vector looking, and then have the back be higher detailed, at such a small scale packing in to much detail will make it look fine at close viewing distances, but as you move away from it (6ft social distanced viewing) it will turn into a blob in my opinion.Good luck! Post your results.