I remember re-listening to a seminar that Mark Coudray gave back in 2002/2003 - about how to do color separations in photoshop. No Visuals to go with it. I listened to those tapes probably 20 times total. Each time I learned something new - went back into photoshop to play - listened - learned - rinse and repeat. No shame in re-watching - KEEP re-watching until you understand it all :)
I've been doing separations in Illustrator since the 90's but I learned something recently. I don't know how long it's been there but, Illustrator has a feature to save selections and recall them, just like Photoshop. That cracked me up. I never imagined a feature like that could work in Illustrator so that's probably why I never got curious and checked for it. I found it by accident. But, the application here I guess would be where you turned that set of tiny objects a different color, so you could grab it again later and treat it differently in the underbase. If you were to select those objects then save the selection, you could call up that selection again later.
That's cool! Really, there is soooooo much we can do in Illy and Photoshop, that we as screenprinters will NEVER need, that its easy to overlook features, but that sounds really interesting! Thanks!
Correct. If I recall correctly, I name it as a non printing color as well to make sure we do not print it. We just need to control the amount we remove from the white - a non printing stroke with a non printing color is the easiest way to accomplish this.
Hi Scott. If your Rip program does not do this automatically - and many do not - Then you need to create your own separations, by hand, on an appropriately sized page in illustrator and manually move the design around until your page is full and then begin with making the separations - this will mean that each color to be printed - will need to be the same color for when you hit print. Depending on complexity and the number of screens for each job, this can be very labor intensive and may not be worth it.
You manually enter it / type it where its needed. Color each bit with the appropriate spot color. Or using the Registration color where its needed so it can show up on all films.
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