Method 1: Download CMYK template (shorter, more advanced) This is not necessary! It's just to help you see what your separations will look like when printed. Riso: print your separations yourself using the UT Computer Printers. UTPrint (if you are printing masters for Riso).Silkscreen, photo litho: Get a TA, monitor, tech or faculty to help you print your transparencies.ĭepending on what your next step is, the following may be helpful: If you are on a shared computer, make sure to save a backup for yourself by: emailing to yourself, uploading to a cloud service, putting on a personal USB. Personal Backup: Files will automatically delete from the school computer when you are logged out.

If unsure, save on your USB drive, or to the Short-Term Storage Box Folder.

To print your transparency: Ask your teacher where they want you to save your final file.

Name your file and save as Photoshop (PSD) on the Format menu.They will be black and white, but you will silkscreen them in color. Repeat these steps for each color layer until you end up with 4 bitmaps. → Example of the black separation converted to a bitmap. Note: If you get and 'alpha' or 'transparency' layer, you can discard it. Change to bitmap (silkscreen, platemaker, photo litho only) the image will be made up of a series of dots that the screen can recognize when exposing). With each individual file, we are turning it into a Bitmap (only needed for exposure units, i.e. We want to only have black and white values. See the top tab bar for all your separations.īelow is my Black Layer.

This will turn each layer of the CMYK into its own image. If this button is greyed out, you have to Flatten your image. You need to turn each one of these layers into a Bitmap.Ĭlick on the small channels menu (4 lines on top R of menu). This shows you the 4 colors are separated. If not visible, Top Menu > WINDOWS > CHANNELS. Look in the Channels Menu at the right side. Save it as a new image because you will be doing destructive image editing.

To check: Top Menu > IMAGE > IMAGE SIZE.

You cannot change the size/dimensions/resolutions after the results will be not good. All images must be sized BEFORE printing. Your image should be sized to the correct size of output and a dpi of 170.

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