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- aleman
what's the best way to produce a gradient fade in silk screening?
NT help me out
adios
- abizzyman0
multiple colors on the screen...
Red to yellow fade:
Red at the top...
... then yellow at the bottom...
... screen it! :)
well - that's the old school way.
- 2cents0
if you want a really clean smooth fade you need to use screen with a high mesh count... but a screen with a high mesh count allows less ink to flow through.
if you're looking for that halftone effect than you can do it by using the pixelate filter in PS.
- abizzyman0
you can create a natural halftone by converting the file to a bitmap too... and choose halftone...
... then your dpi... then the type of halftone 'dot'... then choose the angle of the dot - and the frequency.
man... that sounded nerdy.. ignore me.
- robbie_m0
if its one color gradually fading to the paper.. the a halftone effect in the way to go.
but if you want to make the gradient 2 or more colors, the term is called a split fountain.
a technique used a lot in the 60's
i tried it a couple times in college and it a real bitch. but if you like screen printing, you need to try it at least once