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1. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
Monika Gause Jun 25, 2010 4:22 PM (in response to emilycornfield)I assume the printing people meant, that you should send them true vector files. Not just place the images in Illustrator.
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2. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
Mylenium Jun 26, 2010 1:03 AM (in response to emilycornfield)As Monika said, unless you properly vectorize everything, there is no point in just embedding the PSDs in AI. Since you speak of "simple, with two or three flat colors", I'm afraid you started off on the completely wrong foot by doing it in PS in the first place. This screams "it needs to be vector" all over the place, the reason being that for silk screen you create a sieve mask for each color and for maximum sharpness of these masks, vectors work better. It's not an ultimate requirement, though, but based on that info, as a minor you must familiarize yourself with how to create spot color separations using multichannel/duoton/tritone documents in Photoshop. It may still cause fuzzy edges, but at least you should get clean colors. Otherwise you need to learn AI and re-draw all elements there, assigning proper color swatches which then could be used to create proper separations...
Mylenium
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3. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
emilycornfield Jun 26, 2010 8:31 AM (in response to emilycornfield)I received this response from the Illustrator forum:
As Monika said, unless you properly vectorize everything, there is no point in just embedding the PSDs in AI. Since you speak of "simple, with two or three flat colors", I'm afraid you started off on the completely wrong foot by doing it in PS in the first place. This screams "it needs to be vector" all over the place, the reason being that for silk screen you create a sieve mask for each color and for maximum sharpness of these masks, vectors work better. It's not an ultimate requirement, though, but based on that info, as a minor you must familiarize yourself with how to create spot color separations using multichannel/duoton/tritone documents in Photoshop. It may still cause fuzzy edges, but at least you should get clean colors. Otherwise you need to learn AI and re-draw all elements there, assigning proper color swatches which then could be used to create proper separations..."
I would appreciate being directed to a good tutorial on how to create the spot color separations spoken of here-is there one anyone recommends? Thanks!
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4. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
Monika Gause Jun 26, 2010 9:19 AM (in response to emilycornfield)This one works with not-so-simple-shapes: http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/super-slick-screen-printing-separations-wit h-illustrator/
What kinds of shapes do you have?
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5. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
emilycornfield Jun 26, 2010 9:54 AM (in response to emilycornfield)My images are all solid simple shapes. I actually need a Photoshop tutorial on making separations, I should have posted this request there. I need to use the artwork I have already created.
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6. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
DesignRoo Jun 30, 2010 6:04 PM (in response to emilycornfield)I checked Document Raster Effects setting in AI (a warning said it was at 72 dpi) and changed it to 300 dpi.
What is the DPI of the photoshop doc you imported? Make sure that is 300dpi at creation. Don't 'resave' it to a higher DPI as that will not work - you will need to recreate at that DPI.
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7. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
emilycornfield Jun 30, 2010 6:42 PM (in response to DesignRoo)Yes, thanks, I am aware of how resizing works (I learned the hard way years ago). It was already a 300 dpi file. I have since "resolved" this issue somewhat as the printer decided to accept the original files I sent them in Photoshop since I couldn't easily redo them in Illustrator. Good lesson for next go round with this client.
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8. Re: Trouble saving PS files in Illustrator
emilycornfield Jun 30, 2010 6:44 PM (in response to emilycornfield)From all the comments I saw I needed to recreate the files in Illustrator or make separations in Photoshop. The printer agreed to take my original Photoshop files afterall, so I guess they are doing the seps there. Time for me to learn Illustrator. Thanks for all your feedback and help.



