All Entries in the "Computer Graphics" Category

Adobe Launches CS6 and The Creative Cloud

On Monday, April 23, at 10:00am PT (USA), Adobe launched Creative Suite 6 (CS6), the next versions of its popular software programs like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. They also rolled out the MUCH ANTICIPATED new Web-based subscription service, Creative Cloud.
The April 23 event, was hosted by Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and was streamed [...]

UPDATE – Adobe Changes Mind on Upgrade Price By Scott Fresener

Adobe announced plans to offer subscription based pricing in early 2011, but it was in November with the unveiling of the pricing for Adobe CS6 that the company really irritated long time users/supporters. In addition to the new subscription services, they announced that to qualify for upgrade pricing for CS6, you needed [...]

Choking, Trapping & Cleaning up Type in Photoshop – by Scott Fresener

A Little Background First
Choking and Trapping are two very common printing terms that relate to creating artwork that prints easy at the press.  Computer graphics programs can create outstanding graphics but when you output the films for the separations all the colors butt up against each other. In a perfect world this is great. But, [...]

Who really uses T-Seps and FastFilms?

Some days I feel like a hairdresser. I know much more than I should. Over the years I have had the great pleasure of seeing a LOT of great shirt images of famous people, places, and things that came from FastFilms and now T-Seps. If you look at some of the samples on the T-Seps [...]

Class Name Shirts in Corel Draw by Scott Fresener

Some things never change. Regardless of what shirts are in style, there is still a market for putting a list of students in a class inside a word or the graduation year. This is an old technique that never goes out of style. This article shows how to create this effect in any version of [...]

Blur Text – No, It’s Not Your Eyes – by Scott Fresener

I find it very funny that we strive to do high end photo realistic images on light and dark shirts, and there is a whole other market for simple graphic prints that are very popular. Since everything in this industry comes around more than once (foil was huge in the early 90’s), I thought it [...]

Index Color Separations for Screen Printing

By Scott Fresener

There are a lot of ways of doing color separations but none is as simple and strikingly accurate as Index Color. Index what? Index Color is another way of doing separations for garments.

Improving Poor Photographic Images in Corel Draw

Never leave a piece of photorealistic artwork untouched.

Although Adobe Photoshop is the defacto standard raster/pixel based program that the world uses for pixel based images – many of the tools found in Photoshop are also found in Corel Draw and Corel Photopaint. In fact, years ago Corel made a great move when they built [...]

Improving Poor Photographic Images in Photoshop

Always take time to improve photographic type images in Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is the defacto standard raster/pixel based program that the world uses for pixel based images. It is very powerful and can do wonders with low quality artwork. I am always amazed at printers who take a piece of artwork from the customer and [...]

Simulated Process Color Separations for Screen Printing – Part One

Part One of a two part article. Click here to read Part Two.

By Scott Fresener
Printing detailed, photorealistic images on dark shirts has always been the ultimate goal of most garment screen printers. Yes, the bread and butter is in basic images (for most printers), but there is nothing like lifting the [...]

Simulated Process Color Separations for Screen Printing – Part Two

Part Two – Simulated Process Color Separations for Screen Printing. Click here to read Part One.

By Scott Fresener

Creating Underbase White
If you are going on a black shirt you will need an underbase white. The underbase is the key to the image. If it looks GREAT when printed, chances are the image [...]

Color Separation Tips in Corel Draw by Scott Fresener

Over the years I have learned that one of the major secrets to good screen printing is good color separations.  As you become a better printer, it doesn’t take long to learn that in most cases if the separations are done correctly, the print looks great.  Yes, yes, you need to use properly tensioned screens, [...]

Creating Distressed Look in Corel Draw

OK, I have to admit it. I have written this article before. In fact, in looking for older versions I found an article I wrote on this same topic back in 1999.  Wow!  Has the washed and worn look been around that long? For most of us old timers, we thought it would be a [...]

All About DPI, LPI, PPI & More

By Scott Fresener
Quick Glossary:
Halftone – A series of large and small dots that represent image areas of a continuous tone image. Continuous tone artwork can be converted into printable halftone dots using a process camera or by scanning into a computer and outputting onto film or paper as a series of dots. Even the photos [...]

New RIP Software for Photoshop by Scott Fresener

I have been working very hard on this. With the help of an excellent programmer (masked man…) I have just released T-RIP – a plugin for Adobe Photoshop that lets you print very high quality films from Photoshop and an Epson 1400 inkjet printer! If you remember…. I was the one who brought you FastRIP [...]