An easier way to explain it is, when printing on dark shirts you need to invert the artwork. In Photoshop, Image/Mode/Invert. Hope that helps someone. Thanks Jon for the great job.
Yeah this one may be a little confusing if you do not pay close attention. I thought I displayed the end results of the film either piece of art well in AI there but I guess you could miss that. I don't use Photoshop though. But it's the same thing for AI. Just select object. Drop down menu:edit. Drop down: edit colors. Select: invert colors. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
Good video Jonathan. The principles you explain came easy, but trying to get a customer who wants dark shirts with white ink on the same page can be challenging. Art looks awesome!
Thank you! That is true. Customers are not always easy to handle with artwork. But it's our jobs as professionals in our fields to educate the customer and use our sales skills to sell a product that makes the customer very happy while not making you look bad with poor art. That can be hard to do sometimes especially with those special jobs with hand drawn art they want to use "as is." But we try :) Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
I’m trying to get into screen printing. Slowly buying pieces to be able to do it. The designing is one thing I’m trying to learn a lot on, as I don’t have much experience with it. Just found your channel yesterday and have been watching loads of your videos! All of them have been very helpful and explained amazingly! New subscriber here!
Thank you very much! I appreciate your support. Thanks for the sub ;) Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
Okay so I was trying to have this video ready for this morning. But Mondays are crazy and I was very busy. Because of the upcoming Christmas Holiday I decided to upload anyway to stay on schedule. This video is supposed to explain the difference between reversing artwork from white ink on black tee shirts as opposed to not. I already confused 1 person so we may have to do a follow up with some printing to elaborate. But if you need to print line art in white in on dark tee shirts then you’ll want to watch this video. ua-cam.com/video/35mGNI0UXso/v-deo.html
for complicated line art that doesn't cooperate with this method I just do an offset path of .05 of the whole line work and merge/unite with white fill. make two layers, select white fill and place underneath, Select black line work paste in front on another layer then go to pathfinder and alt-click minus front and expand. this will leave a white outline around all the artwork. works great for tattoo style artwork. If you are unsure if you need to invert colors or not just do a simple mock-up. make a layer of what the shirt color will be and select your artwork and change colors to see what looks best. on white or light shirts, black outlines look good. on black and dark shirts white outlines don't look so good, so the idea is to invert it so you're left with a white fill and the dark color of the shirt will make out the outlines.
+Jesse Villarreal Very interesting, thanks for sharing with our viewers. I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! www.catspitproductionsllc.com/ - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
Did anyone miss this very late #screenprinting #video upload? I tried to explain the inversion concept for printing white ink on black garments. Not sure how well I did that.... LOL ;)
Thank you very much, I appreciate your support and you're welcome! Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
You were talking about complex line art.. So how to prepare the black/white logo for print ? I know that everything has to be merged and clear and no color over colour.. Is that true?
Thanks for the assist! I thought I answered this one but I do not see my reply :( Sometimes the background can be difficult to remove if it was built into the file in a weird way. You may need to copy the design and place it onto a new blank document to make it easy. Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
Like all those little intricate parts of the motor inside the circle how did you get all of the black lining to be nice and sharp and clear so when you burn an image there is no distortion
Good film, a tight mesh screen, and a decent exposure unit. Oh and maybe some good emulsion ;) Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
There are no white cartridges in an inkjet printer. The background, canvas or art board will not print at all. Only the art will print anything. Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
I was afraid of that... LOL. It was hard to explain and even watching it I feel I am unsure of how explain it any better. That may be because I am not an Illustrator expert ;) I probably will make a different video version of this same concept. In the meantime try watching it again and listen closely to what I am saying. You should be able to see the differences in the way they print. I show that in the video, albeit uncleanly perhaps... sorry :( I only started doing art work videos after much pressure from our audience. I'm not that good at it... LOL. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
CatspitProductions Just remember everything that is black on the film positive will be the color of the ink you are printing. So if you want the inside of the skull to print white on the black shirt the inside needs to print black on your film positive. On a white shirt, the shirt will be the inside of the skull and you need the outline ,eyes and any other detail to print black on your film positive. Everything black on the film will block the emulsion from curing and the emulsion will wash away leaving the areas for ink to pass through and onto the shirt.
WhiteyGraphics Yes and if you print black line art in white in on a black garment it will look funny. Normal positive images with lines and commonly known shaded areas as with skulls will look like a negative when printed in white ink on black garments. In the video I show the result by placing the art over the black background. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
How are you doing buddy I love your videos I am a big supporter. If you have time to answer my question my problem is so I get an image off the Internet but it's never crisp and clean. Go away I go in and clean up in image takes forever I literally will take the marker icon and go in and color all of the black areas of an image make sure all the edges are nice and all the pixels are filled in so it is crisp and clean. Then I will take the eraser option and go around and clean up all the edges of everything and it just takes forever is there a way to make in image nice in crisp and all of the colors nice and bold. I've tried the unsharpened mask option I've tried the sharpen option I have tried re sizing in doing more dots per square inch and none of that shit works worth a dam
Hey there, I'm well. Thanks. Glad you enjoy my videos! Thanks for your support :) Unfortunately no. It's like the old saying "garbage in, garbage out." You cannot recreate information where it does not exist. So low res files are worthless. You need to find better files of 1 meg or bigger and a big canvas size. A JPEG that is 125x125 and 27K is junk and cannot be used. But a tiff that is 1.5 megs and 1000x1000 could be auto traced in Illustrator with decent results. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
If I understand you correctly, yes. You can do that but usually we create 2 screens for printing white or black garments so as to keep the set up and labor to a minimum and it also will keep the print feeling thinner. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
I am new to editing for the positives, how can i remove the original outline of the image i reversed? You know cause if you invert it, it will become a one whole black with the design inside of it, how can i get the design only out of it?mthank you sir
I am not sure what you mean. It should simply invert. Unless there are objects hidden in layers or something. I really don't know because I cannot see exactly what you are talking about. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
I have a video on that. Or maybe 2.... ua-cam.com/video/Jv7xLZd9NZQ/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/play/PLlzqjWiR6o9Zuwfj1f6zVidGCc2tXx4l3.html Those are for AI. I do not use Gimp or Inkscape. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
Why not just show a finished white shirt and a finished black shirt? That way the printed portion should be obvious. Then show how the Illustrator art has to change to produce those results. The current explanation requires too much visualization for me. I have a lot of experience with vector art but I am used to white/light substrates and film negatives. It seems like what you're trying to say is important but it's still fuzzy to me.
Sorry about that, I was trying to show the function of inversion in AI really. In the video I show you how each version of the art will print. I show that twice actually. When I place the art over the black background I am showing one of the ways the art will print depending on whether or not you invert it. Basically we're using the black of the tee shirt to create the positive black line work we are used to seeing normally. I'll do a follow up video for this with some printed examples when I have more time. I'll have to get some white tees too... LOL. I only stock black ;)
Yup, this one is a bit confusing and you have to pay close attention while watching it until the very end. Sorry I couldn't help you out. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
An easier way to explain it is, when printing on dark shirts you need to invert the artwork. In Photoshop, Image/Mode/Invert. Hope that helps someone. Thanks Jon for the great job.
Yeah this one may be a little confusing if you do not pay close attention. I thought I displayed the end results of the film either piece of art well in AI there but I guess you could miss that. I don't use Photoshop though. But it's the same thing for AI. Just select object. Drop down menu:edit. Drop down: edit colors. Select: invert colors. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
Good video Jonathan. The principles you explain came easy, but trying to get a customer who wants dark shirts with white ink on the same page can be challenging. Art looks awesome!
Thank you! That is true. Customers are not always easy to handle with artwork. But it's our jobs as professionals in our fields to educate the customer and use our sales skills to sell a product that makes the customer very happy while not making you look bad with poor art. That can be hard to do sometimes especially with those special jobs with hand drawn art they want to use "as is." But we try :) Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
I’m trying to get into screen printing. Slowly buying pieces to be able to do it. The designing is one thing I’m trying to learn a lot on, as I don’t have much experience with it. Just found your channel yesterday and have been watching loads of your videos! All of them have been very helpful and explained amazingly! New subscriber here!
Thank you very much! I appreciate your support. Thanks for the sub ;) Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
CatspitProductions no problem! You’ve got so many good instructional videos on here! Answers about any question I’ve got!
Awesome, glad I can help out through my video work :)
Does anyone know easy steps to covert an image to positive and reverse artwork?
Okay so I was trying to have this video ready for this morning. But Mondays are crazy and I was very busy. Because of the upcoming Christmas Holiday I decided to upload anyway to stay on schedule. This video is supposed to explain the difference between reversing artwork from white ink on black tee shirts as opposed to not. I already confused 1 person so we may have to do a follow up with some printing to elaborate. But if you need to print line art in white in on dark tee shirts then you’ll want to watch this video.
ua-cam.com/video/35mGNI0UXso/v-deo.html
for complicated line art that doesn't cooperate with this method I just do an offset path of .05 of the whole line work and merge/unite with white fill. make two layers, select white fill and place underneath, Select black line work paste in front on another layer then go to pathfinder and alt-click minus front and expand. this will leave a white outline around all the artwork. works great for tattoo style artwork.
If you are unsure if you need to invert colors or not just do a simple mock-up. make a layer of what the shirt color will be and select your artwork and change colors to see what looks best.
on white or light shirts, black outlines look good.
on black and dark shirts white outlines don't look so good, so the idea is to invert it so you're left with a white fill and the dark color of the shirt will make out the outlines.
+Jesse Villarreal Very interesting, thanks for sharing with our viewers. I appreciate it. Thanks for watching and leaving a comment! www.catspitproductionsllc.com/ - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
Thanks
You're welcome. Glad i can help out. Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
Did anyone miss this very late #screenprinting #video upload? I tried to explain the inversion concept for printing white ink on black garments. Not sure how well I did that.... LOL ;)
Good video very informative thanks!
Thank you very much, I appreciate your support and you're welcome! Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
You were talking about complex line art.. So how to prepare the black/white logo for print ?
I know that everything has to be merged and clear and no color over colour.. Is that true?
Thanks Catspit!!!!
You're welcome :) Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
Very good information I wanted to ask that but thank you for the good educational video my friend greetings from Chicago
how are you clicking on just the image all my images have a box or background to it and it doesn't invert right how do you do that
Thanks for the assist! I thought I answered this one but I do not see my reply :( Sometimes the background can be difficult to remove if it was built into the file in a weird way. You may need to copy the design and place it onto a new blank document to make it easy. Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
Like all those little intricate parts of the motor inside the circle how did you get all of the black lining to be nice and sharp and clear so when you burn an image there is no distortion
Good film, a tight mesh screen, and a decent exposure unit. Oh and maybe some good emulsion ;) Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
when printing in transparency , the white from the background doesnt get printed right?
There are no white cartridges in an inkjet printer. The background, canvas or art board will not print at all. Only the art will print anything. Thanks for watching! Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - CatspitScreenPrintSupply.com/
I am confused by your explaination. It got better with the skulls but maybe a printed black shirt and a printed white shirt would help?
I was afraid of that... LOL. It was hard to explain and even watching it I feel I am unsure of how explain it any better. That may be because I am not an Illustrator expert ;) I probably will make a different video version of this same concept. In the meantime try watching it again and listen closely to what I am saying. You should be able to see the differences in the way they print. I show that in the video, albeit uncleanly perhaps... sorry :( I only started doing art work videos after much pressure from our audience. I'm not that good at it... LOL. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
CatspitProductions Just remember everything that is black on the film positive will be the color of the ink you are printing. So if you want the inside of the skull to print white on the black shirt the inside needs to print black on your film positive. On a white shirt, the shirt will be the inside of the skull and you need the outline ,eyes and any other detail to print black on your film positive.
Everything black on the film will block the emulsion from curing and the emulsion will wash away leaving the areas for ink to pass through and onto the shirt.
WhiteyGraphics Yes and if you print black line art in white in on a black garment it will look funny. Normal positive images with lines and commonly known shaded areas as with skulls will look like a negative when printed in white ink on black garments. In the video I show the result by placing the art over the black background. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
How are you doing buddy I love your videos I am a big supporter. If you have time to answer my question my problem is so I get an image off the Internet but it's never crisp and clean. Go away I go in and clean up in image takes forever I literally will take the marker icon and go in and color all of the black areas of an image make sure all the edges are nice and all the pixels are filled in so it is crisp and clean. Then I will take the eraser option and go around and clean up all the edges of everything and it just takes forever is there a way to make in image nice in crisp and all of the colors nice and bold. I've tried the unsharpened mask option I've tried the sharpen option I have tried re sizing in doing more dots per square inch and none of that shit works worth a dam
Hey there, I'm well. Thanks. Glad you enjoy my videos! Thanks for your support :) Unfortunately no. It's like the old saying "garbage in, garbage out." You cannot recreate information where it does not exist. So low res files are worthless. You need to find better files of 1 meg or bigger and a big canvas size. A JPEG that is 125x125 and 27K is junk and cannot be used. But a tiff that is 1.5 megs and 1000x1000 could be auto traced in Illustrator with decent results. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
What if I was to use a white underbase for the whole art work on just keep the one screen for printing on white shirts?wouls that work?
If I understand you correctly, yes. You can do that but usually we
create 2 screens for printing white or black garments so as to keep the
set up and labor to a minimum and it also will keep the print feeling
thinner. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
I am new to editing for the positives, how can i remove the original outline of the image i reversed? You know cause if you invert it, it will become a one whole black with the design inside of it, how can i get the design only out of it?mthank you sir
I am not sure what you mean. It should simply invert. Unless there are objects hidden in layers or something. I really don't know because I cannot see exactly what you are talking about. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
how does one create artwork with halftones, that will benefit from rip software-- how are the subtle shadows or gradients made in gimp or inkscape?
I have a video on that. Or maybe 2.... ua-cam.com/video/Jv7xLZd9NZQ/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/play/PLlzqjWiR6o9Zuwfj1f6zVidGCc2tXx4l3.html
Those are for AI. I do not use Gimp or Inkscape. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
may i ask where you got that image of the stacked skulls??
It's from my personal clip art collection for Catspit stuff. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/
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Radhika Gupta Yello....
Why not just show a finished white shirt and a finished black shirt? That way the printed portion should be obvious. Then show how the Illustrator art has to change to produce those results. The current explanation requires too much visualization for me.
I have a lot of experience with vector art but I am used to white/light substrates and film negatives.
It seems like what you're trying to say is important but it's still fuzzy to me.
Sorry about that, I was trying to show the function of inversion in AI really. In the video I show you how each version of the art will print. I show that twice actually. When I place the art over the black background I am showing one of the ways the art will print depending on whether or not you invert it. Basically we're using the black of the tee shirt to create the positive black line work we are used to seeing normally. I'll do a follow up video for this with some printed examples when I have more time. I'll have to get some white tees too... LOL. I only stock black ;)
hate to break this to u but u did not make sense
Yup, this one is a bit confusing and you have to pay close attention while watching it until the very end. Sorry I couldn't help you out. Thanks for watching. Screen Printing Equipment & Supplies - catspitscreenprintsupply.com/