Photoshop Tutorial: Full Color Screen Printing


	Photoshop Tutorial: Full Color Screen Printing

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10-22-2007 8:18 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/f1d9a129-6f0e-4887-836e-e19a28f3e37e/B9D44BB5-1A51-4744-8DF8-18B427300200/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/" href="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.screensilk.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/"><H2 id="post-9"><A title="Permanent Link: Full Color Screen Printing with Photoshop" rel="bookmark" href="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/">Full Color Screen Printing with Photoshop</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/"><P>If you have read my article, <A href="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/the-secret-to-full-color-screen-printing/">“The Secrets to Full Color Screen Printing”</A>, than you already understand the underlying principles to 4 color screen <A href="http://www.hotcards.com">printing</A>. In that <A href="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/the-secret-to-full-color-screen-printing/">article</A> we discussed the principles of the CMYK color model, color separations, halftones, and lines per inch (LPI). In this tutorial, we are going to take what we have learned, and using photoshop, quickly create color separations for output to transparencies for <A href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-2270134-10388515">screen printing.</A>
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<STRONG>In this tutorial we will be using Adobe Photoshop CS2.</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/"><P><STRONG>1.)</STRONG>	We are going to start off by firing up Adobe Photoshop CS2, and open the registration.psd.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.screensilk.com/2007/01/full-color-screen-printing-with-photoshop/"><P>Alternatively, if you would like to start from scratch, create a new file. This file will be 8.5” x 11” at a resolution of 600dpi in the CMYK color mode. Click OK and lets get started.
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