Catspit Productions wrote:Very cool post, thanks so much!
You´re welcome buddy, It´s always my pleasure to contribute with your forum somehow. Yeah the positive it´s pretty cool! very detailed, the Video shows only one stroke (I quit flooding, because I was "loosing" a lot of details when printing) but I did 2 strokes+flashing and then a final light stroke (I don´t record all the flashing, because as you know I do it with a heatgun and it would be like a 3 mins video or even a more length video!) take a look at the final t shirt
https://twitter.com/i/#!/PERAdesigns/me ... 2FzNj5VBJ3
It looks pretty cool for a "simple" photoshop effect, instead of a RIP software, it´s just one screen, one color, the truth is that I was very dobtful about the final printing during the positive creating process, but I had a nice printing at the end.
I´ve started experimenting because I don´t have the $ to buy any RIP software neither a inkjet printer neither the film paper, so I was watching the new Spiderman movie, when "peter" was traveling on the subway after he was bitten bye the "infected" spider, so take a look whenever you can, he is wearing a black t shirt with a famous Albert Einstein pic sticking his tongue out! jajaja I loved it, and tought will I have to wait until I could afford a expenssive software to achieve that kind of work? so I´ve tried and tried like 2 full days on my 532Mb RAM PC until I succesfully achieved this image, this positive
(I know, my equipment is very raw but I´m just starting this adventure
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Other reason for me to atemptting this kind of halftone effect with the bare Photoshop program, is that the last time I managed to do a very cool "worn" effect over the classic batman logo, but my positive printer trahsed it, he always ask me to deliver him my art in an image or vector but as a Corel Draw file, so I did all my effects on photoshop,and at the end exported the file as a .JPG and "opened" it in Corel and saved at it as a .CDR file and sent it to him, and what Corel does for default whenever you "upload" an image on it, is to automatically darkens it, so it(the batman worn effect positive) lost a lot of the details, so I did´t print what I was expecting of, and with the Gene Simmons positive, I´ve got what I really wanted, I sent the .JPG file into a .CDR file as always but the image(the positive) was already "halftoned", I think my printer doesn´t know how to get the best from his RIP software neither. He prints films, not from a laser o inkjet, but really films positives, the ones made over chemicals solutions or whatever, they are very expensive, like $4 dlls each 11"x14" positive, so I can´t leave it to chance when it comes to my film positives.
this is the batman logo effect I was expecting
https://twitter.com/i/#!/PERAdesigns/me ... 2FK5UvwHUK
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... =3&theater It was a very light worn effect
and this is what I´ve got
http://youtu.be/ZHlXxO5khFg It´s pretty cool too but it wasn´t nearly close to what all the detailed effect I wanted.
I think this raw technique I´ve used to create the Gene Simmons positive could and will be a very helpful art tool for now.
I hope you guys like this
Hi guys! I´m practically a screen printing newbie, I´ve just started printing past May, but I´ve been working on CorelDraw like 6 years ago just for hobby, and Photoshop like a year ago, that little experience on art software has allowed me to make a difference between the screen printing job I could achieve, among other local printers, despite my short experience and my poor quality equipment 
. Art work skills are vital to highlight over the competition.
Jon(CATSPIT) is right, when he says the more you get deep into your screen printing job, the easier it would get to understand how a special technique is done, so I enjoy looking and searching for new experimental art work, I also enjoy looking t shirts on the mall, it gives me more idea how professional screen printing jobs are done.
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,damn, didn´t know that!!