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Artist => Works In Progress-art process => Topic started by: inkbrigade on August 23, 2011, 03:26:42 AM

Title: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: inkbrigade on August 23, 2011, 03:26:42 AM

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?
(http://i.imgur.com/Vq8nc.jpg)

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: squeezee on August 23, 2011, 04:35:05 AM

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

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: tpitman on August 23, 2011, 04:37:52 AM

What color shirts? Is the text vector also?

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: Sbrem on August 23, 2011, 09:04:59 AM

Quote from: squeezee on August 23, 2011, 04:35:05 AM

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

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: squeezee on August 23, 2011, 05:14:01 PM

Change to Lab and check the Lightness channel?

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: Colin on August 23, 2011, 05:30:57 PM

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.

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: squeezee on August 23, 2011, 07:05:43 PM

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

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: Command-Z on August 23, 2011, 07:23:59 PM

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.

Title: Re: Stumped on this sep. Any ideas?
Post by: Artelf2xs on August 23, 2011, 09:48:44 PM

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