WaterDrops and Print seperation
zda49 (6 pencils) | Fri, 2005-04-29 15:09Ok, I've been a member for 5 min 32 sec.I came across this "cool" site searching for water drop info and found it. Great drops by the way. I downloaded it and have been playing with it.
I need to create a design that has realistic water drops on it. I'm working on the design and now have found the drops. The problem is, I'm an Illustrator guy and not so up on PS (using 7.0). I've got to sep this design for print. I want the drops seped as a SPOT color, not cmyk. We'll be using a clear gel, black and white to print the drops. I know I can create a new layer of the drops, invert and use that for the gel plate but I notice that when I invert the drops, the white highlight stays white. I need to create a white plate for the highlight and one for the black plate also (actually screen for tees)
I can create drops in illy but want to use photoshop to get some other effects on the design. Any help on this subject of sepping the drops as spot colors.
Thanks
Mark
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Well, i guess you can create some drops in PS then convert the image to grayscale and then to bitmap. At last you save it as a bitmap tiff. You can place the tiff into illustrator and apply any color to it. You will have to go back and maybe invert the original drops image and then create a bitmap again to have another tiff with different areas of the drop colored in. You will need to experiment a bit to get the right grayscales in PS.
I know there are a few tutorials on the web for this, so I Googled it and found this one.
Check out the author. lol
Terrell Thornhill
e-zign Design Group
Yes, that is the tutorial I have. I believe I got it off this site. Making the drops isn't the problem, it is the seperation for printing that is the problem. Building art for viewing, web or movies is different than building art for print media, especially screen printing. Screen printers are now using 6- 20 spot colors to achieve what used to be a cmyk print. Many build the art by assigning one spot color to a channel. I just need to use PS more. I've been using Illustrator since 87. I don't yet understand the realtionship between layers/channels. I build a design using all these great effects via layers, but am stuck with cmyk for output. I've found some other sites that are more in tune to this problem. I appreciate your input.