Simulated process screen printing separations w/ spot process Part 1 of 2

So separating colors for simulated process screen printing can be a difficult task at best. And you often need years of experience to get it right when doing it manually in a program like Photoshop. Here's a video that explains how to separate colors for printing in photoshop and also shows you what the software Spot Process does. Hope you find it helpful :-) Part1

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[rumorco]

When I right click I only get two options: "Background copy", and "Select similar layers". Why?

[Ryonet]

@rumorco If you layer is a ' background' layer your need to double click it first so that it becomes an standard layer. From here you get many more options when right clicking. 

[MBrhythm]

To do simulated process printing, don't you need halftones?

I've done a few using bitmap. Is there a better way if one doesn't have a RIP for their ink-jet printer?

[Ryonet]

It's pretty tough using bitmats because it really degrades the quality of half tones, and you have take them layer by layer separated, it can be hard to see what you are doing, the down side would mostly be the poor quality half tones, remember, what your image looks like is what is printed on the shirt.

[ryocobb]

We will need to ask a few questions in order to help you with this. Please email our support team so that we can trouble shoot this issue for you. support at ryonet dot com

[miguel0523]

I need help.. I have been doing basic bitmap separations for CMYK, full color screen printing for shirts, but when I do a separation in photoshop, I select bitmap, output 300 pixels per inch, halftone screen, frequency 55, angle 22.5, shape: Round. for Cyan right? but when it converts to dots, they are not round, they have a distorted shape. Any idea why this is happening? why aren't the dots well defined in my photoshop? am I doing something wrong? Any help would be appreciated ^.^

[TheJacChannel]

@adoratis its for PHOTOSHOP idiot

[codemiesterbeats]

Thank you very informative!

[ReGFX619]

where is part two?

[artbypan]

@Ryonet

Just as long as the bitmap art is full size at 300 dpi, there will be no problem with "blockiness". Remember, the image will be exposed on screen grid with a lower resolution, and then the substrate, (shirt) will have an additional grid from the fabric texture. I've even printed images at 240 dpi and still get great results. Fine text is another story and should be output as outlines (or vector).

[adoratis]

@lana962 Check this video named - Separación de color en Corel Draw con Ghostscript . And forget about all this crap