halftone in illustrator
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- crkaintaiwan
so I'm using illustrator to create a image to silkscreen. Whats the best way to create a halftone pattern. Forgive me cause I'm new to this. The shirt is only 2 colour but I would like to create shades using halftone.
I could take it into photoshop, but the printer wants it in illustrator.
any ideas
- rasko40
use spot colours and tints of those colours, the halftone will be generated when the printer rips the film - the printer will select what line screen is best for him (75lpi or sth)
unless you are talking about creating a superbig 'stylised' half tone effect?
- fets0
where you gonna use it for? do you need to have it done in vector? if you give me some info I might have some answers...
what kinda printer you use anyway?
- swollenelbow0
the screener will do it for you if they dont care about how dotty it will look.
as your printer about it. send him a jpeg. gradients vary.
- mrdobolina0
rasko, what is the easiest way to do that stylized half tone effect? I had an idea I want to use that for and was having some problems. Thanks man.
- BonSeff0
i have a book of hafltones and cros hatches and the like. what i do is either scan it or xerox it, blow it up, reduce etc. then open it in streamline.
you can pick those books up at michaels and hobby lobby, maybe b&N
- rasko40
or you can do it in photoshop using the halftone filter, or you sometimes get a better result using the colour halftone and then desaturating and adjusting the contrast.. depends on the image.
I'm sure I worked out how to do it in vector one time but have either forgotten or was dreaming haha
- mrdobolina0
sounds good, you dirty lil devils. I used that color halftone filter way before, but thought there might be a better way, vector wise.
- Bio0
id say start out in PS, and select a channel in your channels pallet and apply a halftone filter to that channel. then go back and apply the filter to another channel. you get better results doing it that way than just applying the filter to the entire image. if you use individual channels, you get sort of a pop art look.
after you are done (it doesnt matter what color mode you are using (duotone, cmyk, rgb) you can streamline each channel and voila! you got your 2 screens.
if you want to see how they should interact with transparency (depends on what sort of ink the printer will use really) you can just adjust it in the AI transparency pallet. so you can show him a hard copy of how it should work in addition to providing te screens he'll need.
im not sure if i expressed that as clearly as i should, but i tried. heheh.
anyway, good luck with it!
=)
- unvisible0
tell your printer to get a clue.
why the hell can he only work
with illustrator files ?