Adobe Photoshop - Spot Color Separation - Screen Printing
By Free Tutorials on Oct 28, 2008 in Adobe Photoshop Tutorials
A detailed tutorial and walk through of how to separate colors in adobe photoshop so you can create the film negatives to screen print with.
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After you select the color with your magic wand a better thing to do in the channel menu is select “new spot channel”. You do not need to inverse the selection step. Pick the Pantone you want by clicking on color. From your color libraries you can select your Pantone. Most screen printers use Pantone Solid Coated. Call them to check. You will then have your color separated with the info they need.
haloskycrash | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
thanks alot perfect video. helped out alot. just doin it for fun but helped me a ton.
1ricksta1 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
THANKS MY FRIEND.
Just starting my screen printing bussiness.
Can you imagine how many hours I used to spend trying to separate colors??
Thanks to you, in minutes.
GOD BLESS YOU AMIGO!
martmedx | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Thank you very much, k?
everythingandme | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Tim, I gotta say, I LOVE U MAN!!, THANK YOU!!!! As a self taught Graphic Designer for screen printing, I have never been able to figure out this process of color seperation. I would go through hours of redrawing, cuting, and pasting for horrible results compared to this. I hope you inspire more people to give back as you have inspired me. Can’t believe how much people try to charge for this process, and its so simple! YOU ARE TRUELY AN ANGEL FOR FIGURING THIS OUT AND NOT HOLDING IT TO YOURSELF!!
ogsmoka | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Hey this is super helpful and something not alot of people would share. great tutorial!
YouFailM3 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
did anyone ever tell you…
that you are the fucking man
i was messing around for hours yesterday, this dominates usinug the wandfor color separation
thanks
vaughncollins | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
i am only just beggining, iv never used photoshop and iv been hesitant to do multi colour prints due to the “trouble” it is to seperate colour but hell you made that so easy that i am now able to start putting alot of my fav designs onto fabric!! thankyou for this
rockinonrach | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
:) 
happychouchou | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
hey thanks man that was very helpfull i have been lookin for awhile on some help on color seperation thanks man!
apollyon9 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
by the way can you teach us how to make face film or a 3d images.. or a photo that fades
ex. shooting star, colored face
i hope you can teach us thanks and more power God bless you,,
jherwyn23 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
i print tshirt and im using only paint to edit my pics,, when i saw this i learned how to make film using Adobe Photoshop w/in less than ten minutes,, this is awsome nice work,,, im sure this video help a lot of people thanks MentinkiZM
jherwyn23 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
I don’t know if you can help me. I have a cosmetic brand and want to create a visual on what the next collection will look like. How do I change the colour of an image from a photograph or a website image to a spot colour. e.g. Pantone. I have read so many books. None of them explain this. Thanks Angelique
byangelique | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Man you just saved me all kinds of problems. When my screen printer was asking me to separate something into channels I must have had a brain fart. Thanks again.
nc454 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Thanks again bro…To get the color separations i just selected the color i needed, and copied and pasted it.
fbcamacho | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
God bless you! I wish you were my son!!!!This is a Great help!!
luemoonba | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
freaking awesome dude….Thanks..
PaganArtGuy | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
I just want to say you did a wonderful job in explaining this process. You have answered my prayers on learning how to do this on my own time. Thank you thank you.
Blessings,
Sandy
BlueFairyQuest | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Thank you for the info this is help me out alot. there was one other guy one here showing a simular tutorial but yours is a
lot easy to understand 5 stars here.
tbenefi33 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Thanks so much for the vid…You saved me a whole lot of time. But im wondering after you have the spot color separations how do you save them as individual file, or have it ready for screen printing?
fbcamacho | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
i’ve done it but i couldn’t save the image thjat were separated /// how am i gonna save it individually..
ruben06291978 | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
P.S. for those using this technique, please keep in mind that this may create halos around other items in other channels. Make sure to singly go through each channel to make sure that there are no “halos”. A wonderful trick I just learned is adjusting the levels when the halos exist. Only adjust the levels in that single channel by moving the white cursor closer to the black (right level cursor should move closer to the left one). Hope this helps.
lilmskrys | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
i’m trying to learn how to do this with an image created in corel painter… the CMYK channels gradients cannot be captured (to my knowledge) with the magic wand… how can i separate these layers with photoshop?
wonderpawn | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
it may look THAT easy… but what about gradients??
lilmskrys | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply
Halftones can get crazy and hard. I would create a new channel. then go to select “color” and do one part of your halfton, then do the same for the other part of your halftone. But halftones can get crazy hard and confusing. Lol.
MentinkiZM | Oct 28, 2008 | Reply