How to create Spot Solor Separations in Adobe illustrator for Silk Screen Printing vlog
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- This tutorial will show you how to create spot color separations in adobe illustrator for silk screen printing in the easiest way possible. If i missed something let me know in the comments.
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This Video is the Single BEST video to explain art prep in illustrator for screen printing. This guy has a great voice and is easily one of the better teachers on UA-cam. GREAT! Thanks.
Registration Fill !!! mind blown! love these little tips!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Excellent tutorial. I was never lost, not for a second. Just learning a “1 point choke is enough” was worth a like, a subscribe and a share.
"I am terrible at explaining stuff..." I don't agree with you. For me you are doing a great job in explaining. You are one of few people where I understand 99% at the first looking and hearing. Great Job that i really appreciate and that helps me so much. Thank you.
Had no idea about the registration swatch. Awesome!
Hey man huge help. Love your vids, you're improving our skills day after day. Your content is efficient, clear, and your screen examples make the difference, also the time length of your vids are approachable. You're doing the web a great service here. Keep it up. Much love from the Pacific Northwest.
This is seriously the best separation tutorial I've seen. Ever. No BS Cam thanks!
Thanks Dr D! Im taking a little break from youtube for a few weeks then I will be back with more tutorials for you.
A 1 pt. stroke for your choke actually is .5, because it is centered on the path. Also, it's a great tool to make a template with guidelines showing where artwork will be burned, (for DTS) and your registration and file info.
This is genius, it's gonna save me a lot of time and effort. Thank you so so so much.
If you're looking for new content...À video on Half tones would be great. Steps up to printing them on a transparency film and holding a halftone dot on the exposed screen (maybe even using an exposure calculator). I think this would be a huge help for many screen printers. Thanks again.
Thank you very very much for this powerful and extremely useful tutorial. You answered all of the questions we have had with AI spot colour separation, and explained the 'how to' components of every step with utmost perfection. We are beginners with AI, and just by following your video you took our vector art and popped it thru to choking and final film printing, allowing us to burn our negatives accurately. This is the best tutorial we have come across. Subscribed and liked. Big thumbs up to you Dude. And thank you again. \m/ \m/
Best video I can find on this THANK YOU
Right on time. Thanks Cam!
Needed this, now to rewatch and follow along as i separate my design, more videos like this, not many online like this unless im searching wrong keywords
you did a good tutorial by first changing to spot color and creating separations., that's what I wanted to learn. thank you .
Thank you! Great video, helped me out so much!
This video was a godsend! Thank you so much! Def subscribed.
Appreciate the tips... Im 1 year in using a heatpress and Qe6000 cutter and getting ready to add screen printing to my arsenal.... Thanks...
thank you. very informative
Cam. Your videos are always solid. If I'm in the area, I hope that I can stop by the shop and check things out. Luv u, bruh.
excelente work
Very helpful, thanks!
Subscribed 😁 thanks a lot for the knowledge and might be an old video to you but the time you took to make this video is still providing endless value hope your dreams come true brother. Thank you for your time.
thank you bro. your content is so clear. I hope you achieve your dreams :)
You are awesome
thanks alot men...
Good video
Thank you, that really help me out. I was lost a few times, until you did this video. I will keep watching.
flex Mckenzie - hey Flex...you and me both! I was taught a different way but this way is easier!!!
Right on guys. If you or anyone you know have specific questions let me know and I will do my best to make a video showing how to do it.
The Print Life - there some instances where you need a trap instead of a choke, and other situations you need both. Can you show how to trap?
How (and where from) did you get your saved reg marks onto the art board? Also, just clicking the reg in the color box is what makes them print on all films?
Thanks my man!!!
ah yea for sure. I need to make a video going into all the different ways to trap choke and gutter art. I'
m working on the registration tutorial now.
I should mention that although we do choke the base we never apply traps to colors, we always butt register colors so that we can wet on wet without any blurring problems.
nice
Nice video specially working on AI for color separation
2018 and this video is still rocking! Keep up the videos I'm a new subscriber and your vlogs are dope. #THEPRINTLIFE haha
👍 I'm late to it but still appreciate this video thx.
Nice job man, currently separating without accurip which is killing me. can't quite justify the amount for accurip just yet! but I will refer back to your video when I do! legend! Jack
One Suggestion for this- I was following along with some artwork, but my separations preview was empty. I had to play around a bit and found out that the artwork must be in CMYK made which mine was in RGB because I have mine defaulted to RGB for my other printer. Made the color mode switch and voila things worked perfect. Everything else was SUPER easy to figure out with your tutorial, thanks!!!
You do not need accurip or any rip software at all. You may want some sort of rip software for dealing with halftones. But if you have Acrobat pro (the paid version) you can do everything as if you would be printing to accurip, except you select 'print to pdf'
Illustrator will create a pdf with each color on a separate page. It will add the reg marks and everything, all you do from there is print the pdf, each page will have a single color, fully separated, and will print on 1 film positive.
@spRas, do you have a tutorial on how to do this?
I would not say or suggest (at all). That sounds finite, as if for ever, at no time will you ever desire to print a halftone and that is unlikely. In fact, it's the opposite. The down side to this feedback, is that most (not all) but most printers will eventfully need to print halftones unless you intend to stay doing solid color baseball designs your whole career. Nothing wrong with that, but most all printers will want to know and learn how to print halftones at some point.
As a screen printer I love learning about the artwork side. But I would have told my artist to not under base the black lol. Great video!!
Ryan Retzlaff why not underbase the black?
Bro THANK YOU!
For sure
great video please make a video on to the separation without using accurip thank you in advance
Ok i stop it and subscribe so lemme finish this tutorial! XD
Good man, thank you stopping everything and hitting subscribe.
Hey thanks man. Great fuckin tutorial!
Hi Cam- great video! Do you usually print black on a base? We never use a base for black ink. I noticed with your under-base, you included all colors including black.
You can also make a colorgroup, then alt drag your PMS one by one on top of each color and rename the spot. Thats a method where you dont need to select anything
Awesome video as always, how do I get my films to print black if I don't have the all black system? Or is there an option in the print dialogue box to only print black?
Thank you
AWESOME VIDEO! Your channel will GROW bro, I love the way you explain its by far one of the most fun videos that I have seen on separating films in Illustrator. Thanks you have my suscribe! Hello from sunny Cancun, Mexico. - Just one quick question: Why did you turn off the Underbase layer before printing all the other Separations? Can't you just deselect it from the separation print window with the same effect? I just want to know if there is a specific reason to do that. Thanks again.
Thank you for the kind words Hector. Hang in there with me the tutorial will get better as time goes on.
Ahhh I wanted to see the film printed .
What type of camera are you using for your intro? I really like the look and we are about to create some tutorials for our customers.
The video helped, but I have a question... Do pantones print in all black on the film?
Hey Cam great tutorial! What printer are you using to output your films? I think you mentioned it in the video.
Epson 4800 think he said 🤘
I have a 5colour design, one of the colours is white, would i have to print white again even with the under base?
Currently weighting up software options here and so far Corel Draw is winning for this. Has all the rip and separations included with the print dialogue and is cheaper over all BUT Illustrator is more universal for incoming art works! 😫
Tip: If you make another layer with the names of the ink colors using the same Pantone colors, it'll print the name of the color used on that screen.
Yea we do that as well, I forgot to include it in the tutorial.
Thank you - as a matter of interest, why don't you use the crops & registration from the print dialog?
If my illustration is for a poster, with a color for the background, do I need an underbase? Because the whole document would be printed with colors. Imagine an A4 size, I would have a colored rectangle filling the entire document. So is an underbase useless in this case? Thank you!
why would you need to print your under base later separately? Surely you could it with the colors at the same time?
just wondering do screen printers only print in pantone spot colours or also other inks? thanku. also if people are sending art to a screen printer, are they required to do all these steps, or is it ok to just have the colours in seperate layers on illustrator/ or photoshop? thanks if you can help
Hey Cam. Quick question. So I'm following the steps but doesn't allow me to select other colors. In my case my design involves a circle and lettering on the inside of it. Any help? Its just 3 colors in my design but its giving me trouble. Thanks in advance
I’m new to screen printing... I have an interview next week.... I’m a at home crafter... I have a Cricut... I’m very creative... I love Watching tutorials on tumbler epoxy application and sublimation... everything I see I find this to create... I TikTok, UA-cam, Facebook,Pinterest and see all the cool trends going on and want to make everything! I see what the glowforge is capable of and I want to cut it aaaaaall! Do you think I am looking for a screen printing job or sign company or what company would use a glowforge in their business? I’m hoping I’m right by applying for a job in the screen printing company.... as you can see I’m new and am not sure which direction I belong in.... heeeelp lol ,Monique
Can accurip be used with an HP Officejet Pro 9015 printer?
Home fucking run with the tut! You have answered so many questions I had with setting up color separation to print with accurip. Way better than anything I've seen on Skill Share, or anywhere on line. You should get in contact with SkillShare to make something happen. Thanks for the time and videos. Question Cam.. Have you ever consider podcasting..? I've tried listening to some but they are terrible.
Thanks you so much. I will keep trying to make one a week.
great tutorial!
i just have one question....
for the choke on the underbase do you Align the stroke to the "center" or do you Align the stroke to the "inside" ?
Thanks!!!!
I was always taught to do a 1pt. stroke, centered, but I learned in Photoshop, so I'm not sure if there's a difference in output?
Hey man question.?? What program can I use for color separation that is free?? THANK YOU
PLEASE READ!!
I found that the easiest way to separate the colors is to just make copies of the image, depending on the number of colors. For example, if your image(lets just say winnie the pooh) has 4 colors, make four copies and on each separate copy, color the parts that are suppose to be one color(lets say his shirt is read.) You'd make the shirt black and the other parts white. For his yellow skin, you'd make his skin black and everything else white. Whenever you finish it all, you should have four different copies. They'll all be scattered, but when you put them together, they'll all match up like a puzzle. Hope this helped!!
**For anybody interested in knowing why you'd color the parts black, and not their actual color: the color of the image is not dependent on the color of the transparencies, but on the ink that you use on the screen.
My art in the layers tab only shows one layer not all individual color layers is there a way to show each layer?
Great video, but I don't understand why you need AccuRIP, after you created the base layer and the other 3 color layers, why can't you just print directly to the Epson printer right out of illustrator? What does the RIP do that is different?
The RIP prints each color onto individual films without having to turn a layer on print, turn another layer on print, and so on. The rip also allows you to control the volume of ink your printer prints onto the film, and from witch print heads the ink uses, It also converts gradients and opacity's to halftones automatically. Basically it give you a level of control that epson drivers and illustrator just dont give you, but it is for sure over priced. I printed films for years without one.
Help please... why is rip software needed? Why can't I print each separation as a black output to my fulm?
Brand new in the screen print world. Thx.
hey! can i get design files in .ai format, so that i can use the design directly ? peace
Ok so total newby question but why do you need the special software to print the separations? Why can’t you just put each individual color on a separate layer and print each layer individually?
Does this only work with a vectorized image? I tried it and when I look at the separations preview my layers dont show up. It was a jpeg
Way off from the direction of this tutorial. A jpg is not going to be vector art. Vector is math (created in a vector program), a jpg is pixel based. Like a photo, a graphic from internet images, a photoshop file are all created with pixels known as "raster" art. You would not typically print separations of a jpg out of a vector program. (you can), but with little accuracy and this is not what the tutorial shows.
The real question is, how blazed were you when filming this video tho?
50% of my body was THC.
The Print Life hitting the pen one time for you brotha😤😎
@@ThePrintLife High Fives! Great tutorial though. I watched a few from others for a job I'm pursuing, and this one is easy to understand. Thanks!
So, spot colors will print BLACK on film regardless of visible color?
I'm sorry for the dumb question but I'm struggling to understand what the underbelly is or why print one?
Does this technique work on PDF files?
Hey Cam...can't find you reg marks video...where can I find it?
Thanks for the "seps for dummies" video. Def understand things a little better now :)
I can't find it too :(
Jason. I'm filming that today video. I filmed the seps video first and new I would be shooting the registration video so I made sure to mention it in this video
The Reg marks Vid is in the description now.
What do I do if I have gradients in a file? Every time I click to expand it keeps separating the gradient into a million different shapes.
GREAT VIDEO! I got stuck at the UNITE option, using the Pathfinder, because my graphics are done using PERSPECTIVE... How do I proceed, then?
oh shit that is a good questions. I never use that tool!!!
haha, thanks for the response. I ended up having to select all of the objects w/ the Magic Wand, everything was selected, then. I guess I could have used Select All. ANd then I changed the color manually to a spot color. Then, I Printed that as a White Underbase Color Separation, along w/ my other colors. I couldn't do the edging stuff you were doing, it wouldn't work for some reason. Or I couldn't figure it out.
But, I have an Underbase, and I didn't need to go into GIMP to do it. Thanks for your video! It was super helpful!!! Let me know if you think of a solution for my original question. I am teaching myself Illustrator, so I am sure I am doing several things backwards.
and WOW, having only used Inkscape before, WOW is Illustrator powerful!
how do i choose a white color when im choosing the colors
how can I make color on the art that has no color
Everything you need can be done in CorelDRAW.
what your font logo
Please excuse my confusion, but why are you underbasing black?
dude.. I've been doing this the long (wrong) way this whole time... THANK YOU!
Could you make a video for CMYK process on Dark substrate, with white under base. I've experimented with complete white under base(rectangle base under entire artwork)but it always looks FUCKED UP. When I print CMYK on a white it look perfect... but when I print on the white under base my CMYK colors dont look right
yea that's in the work sometime soon.
COOL! Thank you!
I really DIG the VLOG! Thanks for all your advise and points of view!
hi cam, I don't get what the end point of this tutorial. can I use this to separate colours for screen printing. y the stroke. y the gold looking colour for the background. we didn't get to see the printed papers or items. I'm really lost tho
When you start printing you will get it. The stroke is to choke the under base down or to pull the edges in. I use the gold color instead of white so that I can see layer on a white art board.
The Print Life hmmm ok I think I'd just carry on then. Thanks for the reply
This shows you HOW to do the separation in Illustrator in order to print your film. The gold color on the underbase is just to make sure you can see what you do in the screen, the RIP software will force all of the colors to print BLACK on the printer to create your film. This is the BEST tutorial to learn how to separate colors for screen printing.
Exactly Hecctor, thanks for jumping in. I try to relay the info but it seems I'm still loosing some people. I will get better at making these tutorial as time goes on.
BRAND NEW to this graphic design and printing game. what file type is the artwork you are starting with in this video?
It's been a bit since I made this, I think it was a png.
@@ThePrintLife sweet! Thanks, Cam!
Hi
Can't you just print each layer from illustrator without accurip, then burn each layer on a screen for the color you want. Or is this sublimation.
Oh wait I get it, if someone gives you a full color print the rip software program separates the color to its own layer. Do I understand it right
Yea you can but Accurip allows you to control the density of the ink deposit from the printer and it allows you to accurately represent ink colors on screen. Ultimately there are tons of workarounds, if your are just starting save cash and print from layers. just fill each layer with black.
It would have been nice to see the ages after they printed.
Man! I always have a hard time with adobe. I ifind it easier working with photoshop
So you cant print with a hp??
hp computer? I think they are compatible with accurip.
AccuRip! needed. More like accu rip-off
Is there a step missing. You hover brings up a bunch of sparklies! I'm starting at plain text. I'm bummed that this isn't for beginners. People love this tutorial. It kills me when people start in the middle of settings. Ugggh. I'm venting... trying to learn. I'll find the step somewhere else and come back. This is surely a valuable vid is see from the reviews. Keep it going, and thank you.
Followed you up until you did the underbase as a separate print opposed to just printing with the others 3 colors. I was waiting on a reasoning but you never gave one. Seemed like extra work that way so I'm figuring there was a reason for it.
Yea it seems funny but having the under-base on a separate layer makes it easier to manipulate the base as opposed to using the overprint fill options in the attributes. just print the over print colors out on films, then turn that layer off and print the base. It's just another way of doing things, not to only way.
Missing the print result ...
Yes that was a mistake, should have included it on this video,
WHEN I CLICK THE SEPRATION NO COLOUR APPEARS
go to file/hit document mode/ and select CYMK mode
You spelt colors wrong on the caption for this one man.. twas confusin me tryna figure out what solors are....
I guess a critical part of your "choke stroke" is to make sure the rule is "inside" your graphic? Otherwise its just tacking that 1 point outside the edge.
1 pt stroke is actually .5 stroke by default. If you look on the stroke window you can align strokes center, outside, and inside. based on your needs.
Exactly. If you add a stroke to the "center" you'd get half that width removed as a choke. That's why I would recommend adding the a 1pt. stroke "inside" to get a true 1pt. choke. If using "center" you'd need a 2pt stroke to get your 1pt. choke. Great trick-thanks.
For sure I wish I would have mentioned that in the tutorial.
Well, I appreciate the great tip. It's a great trick. I had been making an "inner" rule then outlining it, then deleting it. Your way is a little slicker. Meanwhile, I'm excited to learn that I can print good seps from the RIP that came with my EPSON 3800 "designer" edition.
I confuse, you have a beard!!!
It comes in quick.
Too much KOIK.
There must be a UA-cam channel training school, because they all look and sound the same. They all name their channel (topic) "Life," they use the same buzzwords, hipster music, and they all do the "peace out" thing at the end, using their hand to cover the camera lens. What's up with that? Can't anyone be original?
2023 update is completely different, can't follow along. Frustrated