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My question is why do you have to seem so hostile about this topic and constantly call out ignorance which in my opinion disrespects a lot of people on this site that are professional photoshop seperators who know how to use their software and understand separating for screen printing just as well if not better than you do. There is folks here that have stepped and also printed award winning shirts and I have one of them award winning shirts hanging in my office, no push button sep software or plugin could come close to creating the seps that the artist did for that shirt. The difference between the software no matter the software and a human is that the human understands how ink works on shirts, understands how ink works on bases, understands how ink works through different mesh counts and understands how inks play together in different print orders. Software cannot do that it only knows one thing and thatis how to do what it is told to do on screen. Not saying your technique cannot do a decent out of the box job, but I would love to see it used in comparison to a human seperator with a non cherry picked graphic.
HSB seps are possible in Photoshop. Here's a tute from Youtube posted by somebody here before:Manual HSB Color Separation in Adobe Photoshop for ScreenprintingMaybe convoluted at first, but once the basic moves are made into actions, it's a piece of cake.Art made in Photoshop is best sepped in Photoshop. How are you going to isolate and airbrush an area in a vector program? Plus, yeah... Draw isn't available for Macs and didn't run well in that environment when it was.This is a great discussion, but it smells to me like a backdoor sales post for your software.
Quote from: Inkman996 on March 31, 2013, 11:04:59 AMMy question is why do you have to seem so hostile about this topic and constantly call out ignorance which in my opinion disrespects a lot of people on this site that are professional photoshop seperators who know how to use their software and understand separating for screen printing just as well if not better than you do. There is folks here that have stepped and also printed award winning shirts and I have one of them award winning shirts hanging in my office, no push button sep software or plugin could come close to creating the seps that the artist did for that shirt. The difference between the software no matter the software and a human is that the human understands how ink works on shirts, understands how ink works on bases, understands how ink works through different mesh counts and understands how inks play together in different print orders. Software cannot do that it only knows one thing and thatis how to do what it is told to do on screen. Not saying your technique cannot do a decent out of the box job, but I would love to see it used in comparison to a human seperator with a non cherry picked graphic.I would absolutely love to do comparisons and we will be doing some in the very near future. Yes I may seem hostile at times but I am also well aware of the fact that allot of false information is making the rounds even now. And the false information costs small businesses money and clients. Case in piont.. Guy with a multi-color print takes the art to an Adobe Shop the Adobe Shop says he needs 12 colors and it will cost XXX$ the guy goes down to the street to an AA follower with a small shop using CorelDRAW. AA follower takes the art apart in HSB then tells the client he can do it for X$ with 4 colors. The guy with Corel gets the four figure order and the client. End of story.If you do not understand color and the guy down the street does he may very well take your clients and money away.. how do I know that. I hear about it all the time now.
No plans for that at this time but we do have a bun in the oven so to say... www.openscreenprinting.com we just remodeled a shop with an 8 color manual and all the trimmings. On that site we will produce free screen printing videos and cover the entire process from art/design to separating to the printing press. All of which should get started in the next 2 to 3 weeks.We are planning on comparing many things in the interest of getting every shop up to speed at the highest level possible given the equipment they have. It is possible to do very high end looking prints with just a few colors and it is possible to do amazing prints with more colors. Lets hope it all comes together effectively on the screen printing training side
Quote from: AdvancedArtist on March 31, 2013, 12:48:25 PMNo plans for that at this time but we do have a bun in the oven so to say... www.openscreenprinting.com we just remodeled a shop with an 8 color manual and all the trimmings. On that site we will produce free screen printing videos and cover the entire process from art/design to separating to the printing press. All of which should get started in the next 2 to 3 weeks.We are planning on comparing many things in the interest of getting every shop up to speed at the highest level possible given the equipment they have. It is possible to do very high end looking prints with just a few colors and it is possible to do amazing prints with more colors. Lets hope it all comes together effectively on the screen printing training sideTom I take it this is you and Scott's latest concoction? Scott did say he was hard at work on some vids and had something special brewing..
The whole process does seem to be easier in Corel by what I have seen in the video, but that might just be due to my limited knowledge of Photoshop which by the way is a software I dread to use. I`m kind of an Illustrator person but since we have as well a Windows PC now I might get a copy of Corel Draw. By the way I do like the opentshirts soft. Real nice.