Color Separation in Photoshop for Screen Printers Part 1 

Great vid. Glad it is still up as old as it is. It is still very helpful! Thanks!

Thanks so much for this, even just showing me how to use the channels was cool, I was working with gradients in the image and it was a bear but thanks to this vid I made huge progress in a short amount of time... POST MORE VIDEOS!!! :) Really Thanks a million!

Thanks for posting this video. It helps a lot.

no problem, glad it helped. jpeg's don't utilize channels and flatten the image. you'll need to save it as a psd, tif or something like that. regards...

thanks..... love these tutorials!!!

@KidsDestroyChiptune You could just change the resolution back to 300dpi. This will help with the canvas issue but the image will still probably have some sawtooth edges. Only way to fix that would be to redo the logo at 300 dpi or take it into illustrator or corel and live trace it.

You are brilliant!

thanks for posting this, it helps a lot.. will you please do color sep on the colored photograph of the face next time? thanks..

wow that saves me some time thanks

You are aware that for the purposes of screen printing colors are based on CMYK and you're doing a separation of RGB color and even the color separation can do with a printer and print time by choosing the option: color separation .. regards

Hi fab video - been really struggling with colour separation - so thanks! I am completely new to photoshop so this may be a stupid question, but how can you then print the individual channels?

Thanks greatly for this video. I'm just getting started with Photoshop and screen printing and this was very informative. I was wondering why you would send the separations to a rip from photoshop instead of just printing directly from photoshop? My apologies if this is a stupid question. :o)

But pressman will want registration marks, color bars and image at least 3/4" from plate edge and a centered copy or the boss man will rip you a new one if it gets to press without them

hello, thanks for the nice video, i learned a lot from this. Q: why am nat able to SAVE my separated channel as JPG file? after I saved it the JPG flie appears white....

This is photo shop cs3. But you should be able to do the same thing with previous versions....

If I save this file as an .eps and email it to my printer, will she be able to open it and see, and then print, the channels? Thanks so much!

I hear what your're saying, but these are spot color separations not cmyk. it doesn't matter if it's cymk or rgb. You're converting the colors into a grayscale by saving it to channels anyways.

great... :)

is separation with Adobe iA possible?

for some reason it won't save selection on cs6

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