Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P16

Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P16: The toolbox is the heart of Photoshop CS3, and where you’ll find thetools you need to create your artwork and perform editing tasks. Fromthe toolbox you can access the selection tools, shape tools, type tools,Crop tool, and eraser tools. These are basic tools that any screen printeror graphic artist needs.
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Photoshop CS3 for Screen Printers- P16426 Part V / Color Separations. Note: You may skip this part of the chapter project and move on to another sec- tion if you’d like. The finished files for each section are on the companion CD. Cleaning up the image involves removing the background of the wall or painting over it, painting with a background color, and then enlarging the canvas. 1. Open the file Fish Picture.jpg from the Chapter 23 folder on the companion CD. 2. Choose Image>Canvas Size. Change the image size to 18 by 25 inches. If necessary, use the scroll bars to position the picture in the middle of your computer screen. 3. Select the Eyedropper tool and select the green color of the plate, just behind the fish’s back fins. 4. Select the Paint Bucket tool, and in the options bar change the Mode to Normal, Opacity to 100 percent, and Tolerance to 100, and verify that Anti-alias and Contiguous are checked. 5. Click in the newly added part of the canvas, outside the wall area. 6. Select the Brush tool from the toolbox. 7. Select the Hard Round 19 pixels brush from the Brush palette in the options bar. 8. Paint with this brush very carefully around the outside of the fish. Change the brush and brush size as needed to cover over the rest of the flaws in the green part of the image. 9. Save the image as Fish.psd (a Photoshop PSD file). Text and Borders You can add text and borders to finish the logo; however, we save the section on text for later. There are different ways to work with type in a Photoshop image, and it deserves its own section. In this section, let’s just add a border. Chapter 23 / Process Color Separations 427. Note: If you want to skip this part of the exercise, the completed file is Fish3.psd on the Chapter 23 folder on the companion CD. Use the Zoom tool to position the image appropriately on the screen. 1. Open the file Fish.psd from the Chapter 23 folder of the companion CD, or use the file you created in the last exercise. Use the Zoom tool to zoom in or out on the image. 2. Use the Crop tool to crop the image so that it forms a more propor- tional, rectangular shape. Leave enough room for a border. (If desired, use Image>Image Size to increase or decrease the size of the image.) Save the image to the hard drive as Fish.psd. Your screen should look similar to what’s shown in Figure 23-2. Figure 23-2: The Fish.psd file 3. Choose the Brush tool from the toolbox. 4. Set Mode to Dissolve and Opacity and Flow to 100 percent. Enable the Airbrush option. 5. Change the foreground color in the toolbox to white.428 Part V / Color Separations 6. Open the Brushes palette from the options bar. From the additional options, choose Faux Finish Brushes and click OK. 7. Choose Sea Sponge 2 and an appropriate brush number. 8. Paint around the image using this tool. See Figure 23-3. I’ve added some additional touches with the Grass Brush tool at the bottom of the image. The Grass Brush tool is available if you choose Reset Brushes from the additional options. 9. Crop the image again if desired and save the image as Fish2.psd. (You can see my Fish2.psd in Figure 23-3.) When you are preparing an image for screen printing, you generally have to perform manual and automatic color adjustments too. These include using Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask to sharpen the image and Image>Adjustments>Hue/Saturation to saturate the image. There are other things too; if you’ve been skipping around in this book, return to Chapter 16 for other image preparation tasks. Use your knowledge in this area to further prepare the image before moving on. After applying Unsharp Mask and increasing the saturation, resave the file as Fish3.psd. Figure 23-3 shows Fish2.psd on the left and Fish3.psd on the right. Fish3.psd has had unsharp masking and saturation increases. Figure 23-3: Preparing the image Chapter 23 / Process Color Separations 429] Tip: This particular image needs lots of unsharp masking and saturation.Chapter Project Part II: Perform theSeparation Once the image has been readied for print, you can perform the actual separation. The first step in performing this color separation is to change the mode of the image from RGB to CMYK: 1. Open the file Fish3.psd from the Chapter 23 folder of the companion CD, or use the file you’ve created in previous sections ...