Have you ever taken a photo on your cell phone, and loved it, but once you had a chance to view it on your computer, or printed it out, you realized it was blurry, pixilated and looked like crap? What if I told you, you could turn that crappy image, into a high res, printable piece of art? This is definitely worth the look….
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Maximizing appearance in Illustrator
People like to say, “Appearance is everything..”. When it comes to art and design, that isn’t necessarily correct, but when it comes to Adobe Illustrator, these words have never been more true.
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Intro to Screen Printing – What you need to know
Nice video tutorial covering the basics of screen printing using screen filler. While this doesn’t explain any advance techniques, it is a nice starter for anyone looking to learn the art of screen printing.
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Full Color Screen Printing with Photoshop
If you have read my article, “The Secrets to Full Color Screen Printing”, than you already understand the underlying principles to 4 color screen printing. In that article 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 screen printing.
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The Secret to Full Color Screen Printing
Ever wonder how t-shirts are made that feature photographic quality design, in full color? This articles takes an in-depth look at the subject of cmyk printing and color separations, and their uses in screen printing. This casual approach to a difficult subject, should provide you everything you need to know to start producing full color artwork for fun and profit.