Thanks for the tutorial. I really appreciate that you jumped right into it without drama and long intros. This is by far, the best tutorial on his topic. I will recommend it to many other people.
I don't have to do this very often, so I always forget how to do it. I would like to thank you guys for re-teaching me how to do this every 6 to 9 months for the past few years, it's been invaluable!
Just started a new job this week at a mainly screen printing shop. I have been a graphic designer for print material for 14 year prior. This video was SO much help!!
Your video is great thanks is direct and straight to the point I look at a lot of videos on color separation on here and either they talk too much and confuse you by doing too much and then you forget the steps or they just doing way too many other steps that are unnecessary. Thank you for being direct and straight to the point.
Hi can you help me? Because when I click one of the color with magic wand tool the new swatch button in the swatch pannel is not clickable, but when i deselect the object is clickable, how can i fix this?
Great tutorial for your clients... Im a beginning screen printer in my garage and was just curious how you would take this a step further for moving into printing films and what your typical procedure for that would look like?... I already know the very basics, but am still learning new ways to streamline the process, and also to know when its appropriate to trap or choke certain colors, or for that matter when to do butt registration instead (which I have not tried yet)... tips, suggestions?
Hi Shaun! If you're interested, I actually have a tutorial series that goes over most of this on my channel. As for when to choke and trap, generally you'll always want to choke your white base, except when you have a white highlight on top. The white highlight and the white base should always be butt. Another thing you might not be aware of is not to print black over a white base. Trapping, in my experience in several large print shops, is an individual preference. I've worked with printers who insist on trapping certain colours and others who don't trap at all. Personally, I find it's not super necessary most of the time, but others will disagree. Hope that helps!
why did you perform the command expand then you used the pathfinder selection? what did this do and how did it help with the overall goal of getting the artwork ready for production?
I expanded the art mainly to make the strokes dynamically scalable and so they print correctly. If you have a 1pt stroke and resize the art, the stroke stays at 1pt, but if the art is expanded it will scale proportionally. I like to use the pathfinder to flatten the art so I can cleanly recolor the art into spot colors for my separations. If we have layered colors sometimes that makes it more difficult to see the spot color changes as we make them.
I'm having difficulty saving the new swatches with the wand tool. when i click on a color want to the click new swatches it is not highlighted for me to do so
+Ricky Wilbon This sometimes happens if you have stroke in the foreground and not fill. Try hitting the X key bringing the fill to the foreground and see if that makes the save swatch function available.
Hi Fermz! I'm sure you've figured this out already but you can print your films from the print dialog in Illustrator by going to "Output", then changing the "Mode" to "Separations". Just make sure you check the preview of the colours below in the Document Ink Options for any stray CMYK data that may still be left in your artwork.
Do you need any other software. Beside what your showing in video.So after your done separating the 4 colors you can go to inkjet printer or is there more steps. Thanks
Typically the reason nothing shows is you are in "RGB color" mode and you need to be in "CMYK color" mode. You can go to the File Menu and scroll to the bottom and switch the "Document Color Mode" to "CMYK". File>DocumentColorMode>CMYKcolor Cheers, Team Luxe
Pantones (in theory) are always mixed the same way. They should be consistent from shop to shop, so if this client needed to print shirts on the other side of the country, (like if they were on tour or something), technically using Pantones should ensure that they print will look the same. Hope that helps!
Pantone are also cheaper in the long run. Unless you have a client like Ikea with their blue. Or Disney's Mickey mouse red. You won't need a special premix made.
Hi thanks for sharing. I'm quite confused between spot color, process color and Pantone color. When you're saving colors of your artwork as new swatches, you simply changed color type from process to spot color on the new swatch window. Does it mean that we can use any color and change the color type to spot color as you demonstrated here?
I always say to just go with Pantones. Some print shops use Pantones exclusively, and others use brand name spot colours that come premixed, but they can usually get pretty close to a Pantone. If you make up a colour, you run the risk of not knowing how to get that same colour at a different shop, or even the same colour the next time you print. Pantones are supposed to be the exact same everytime they are printed.
The video starts with a selection of the vector art. You can either click Command A or go to Select in the top Illustrator Navigation menu and choose ALL.
Thanks for the tutorial. I really appreciate that you jumped right into it without drama and long intros. This is by far, the best tutorial on his topic. I will recommend it to many other people.
I don't have to do this very often, so I always forget how to do it. I would like to thank you guys for re-teaching me how to do this every 6 to 9 months for the past few years, it's been invaluable!
Thank you! Straight to the point and easy to follow steps AAA🙏
Just started a new job this week at a mainly screen printing shop. I have been a graphic designer for print material for 14 year prior. This video was SO much help!!
Great Tutorial! Ive been researching for days now, I finally cam across this video that answers so many questions. Thanks
Your video is great thanks is direct and straight to the point I look at a lot of videos on color separation on here and either they talk too much and confuse you by doing too much and then you forget the steps or they just doing way too many other steps that are unnecessary. Thank you for being direct and straight to the point.
thankyou for this tutorial sir I can't believe you have very fewer subscribers for this very useful tutorial...
Hi, thank you for sharing! What format do you save? Can I send Ai file to the printer?
3:00 - Separations preview panel is the ticket I'm after. Thanks!
Hi can you help me? Because when I click one of the color with magic wand tool the new swatch button in the swatch pannel is not clickable, but when i deselect the object is clickable, how can i fix this?
To add trap to anything would it just be adding a stroke to the objects?
this is the best tut thanks
Great Tutoria thank you so much!!!
Great tutorial for your clients... Im a beginning screen printer in my garage and was just curious how you would take this a step further for moving into printing films and what your typical procedure for that would look like?... I already know the very basics, but am still learning new ways to streamline the process, and also to know when its appropriate to trap or choke certain colors, or for that matter when to do butt registration instead (which I have not tried yet)... tips, suggestions?
Hi Shaun! If you're interested, I actually have a tutorial series that goes over most of this on my channel.
As for when to choke and trap, generally you'll always want to choke your white base, except when you have a white highlight on top. The white highlight and the white base should always be butt. Another thing you might not be aware of is not to print black over a white base.
Trapping, in my experience in several large print shops, is an individual preference. I've worked with printers who insist on trapping certain colours and others who don't trap at all. Personally, I find it's not super necessary most of the time, but others will disagree.
Hope that helps!
Hey thank you for your time and your response! Ill look for your other tutorials as well! Best.
Shaun Brown no worries!
good work bady👍
Excellent video. When convenient can you do a vid using spot colours for halftones?
Hi, can you please make one video with the registration mark and showing layers?Thank you.
why did you perform the command expand then you used the pathfinder selection? what did this do and how did it help with the overall goal of getting the artwork ready for production?
I expanded the art mainly to make the strokes dynamically scalable and so they print correctly. If you have a 1pt stroke and resize the art, the stroke stays at 1pt, but if the art is expanded it will scale proportionally.
I like to use the pathfinder to flatten the art so I can cleanly recolor the art into spot colors for my separations. If we have layered colors sometimes that makes it more difficult to see the spot color changes as we make them.
I'm having difficulty saving the new swatches with the wand tool. when i click on a color want to the click new swatches it is not highlighted for me to do so
+Ricky Wilbon This sometimes happens if you have stroke in the foreground and not fill. Try hitting the X key bringing the fill to the foreground and see if that makes the save swatch function available.
AMAZING !!! Thank you very much !!!
Great Tutorial !
how do i print seperate transparencies from this? i followed the steps and was able to do everything, but don't know what to do next.
Hi Fermz! I'm sure you've figured this out already but you can print your films from the print dialog in Illustrator by going to "Output", then changing the "Mode" to "Separations". Just make sure you check the preview of the colours below in the Document Ink Options for any stray CMYK data that may still be left in your artwork.
@@Merchenaries how do I fix this issue output is grayed out for separation options
Do you need any other software. Beside what your showing in video.So after your done separating the 4 colors you can go to inkjet printer or is there more steps. Thanks
What Adobe illustrator are you using including the version thanks
when i bring up the separations preview, nothing is shown below. why is this
Typically the reason nothing shows is you are in "RGB color" mode and you need to be in "CMYK color" mode. You can go to the File Menu and scroll to the bottom and switch the "Document Color Mode" to "CMYK".
File>DocumentColorMode>CMYKcolor
Cheers,
Team Luxe
What would be the purpose of converting them to pantone like that?
Pantones (in theory) are always mixed the same way. They should be consistent from shop to shop, so if this client needed to print shirts on the other side of the country, (like if they were on tour or something), technically using Pantones should ensure that they print will look the same. Hope that helps!
Pantone are also cheaper in the long run. Unless you have a client like Ikea with their blue. Or Disney's Mickey mouse red. You won't need a special premix made.
Hi thanks for sharing. I'm quite confused between spot color, process color and Pantone color. When you're saving colors of your artwork as new swatches, you simply changed color type from process to spot color on the new swatch window. Does it mean that we can use any color and change the color type to spot color as you demonstrated here?
I always say to just go with Pantones. Some print shops use Pantones exclusively, and others use brand name spot colours that come premixed, but they can usually get pretty close to a Pantone. If you make up a colour, you run the risk of not knowing how to get that same colour at a different shop, or even the same colour the next time you print. Pantones are supposed to be the exact same everytime they are printed.
@@Merchenaries Hi, I've just found your reply...7 years after! Thank you for your help!
THANK YOU!
The video starts with a selection of the vector art. You can either click Command A or go to Select in the top Illustrator Navigation menu and choose ALL.
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Not Quick seperation, boring not good presentation!
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