The Graphic Design Thread

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 05:13 PM

i'll have to google that, gnip. glad you guys like it.

i'm curious...do any of you guys prepare art for screening? i used to know how to do it fairly easily and realized that some of my recent shit might not work so well.

my main issue is dealing with the opacity of an image, considering it's a solid ink color...can they burn a screen with varying levels of opacity? i thought you couldn't.

**Luff** · 12-04-2008, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by 4evrskm::Derek

thanks. hopefully it gets printed, and soon, cause i want to wear that. i'm slowly trying to design shirts for companies in skimboarding that are sick shirts first and logo/skim shirts second.

sort of a tough sell at first.

haha, good call. those are the shirts i buy. i dont like generic shirts with just the brand name plastered across the front. my favorite shirt is probably my RVCA one and all it has is the tiny VA logo stiched on, you can barely see it. its focused on the design instead of the brand.

id definitely wear that shirt though.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by 4evrskm::Derek

i'll have to google that, gnip. glad you guys like it.

i'm curious...do any of you guys prepare art for screening? i used to know how to do it fairly easily and realized that some of my recent shit might not work so well.

my main issue is dealing with the opacity of an image, considering it's a solid ink color...can they burn a screen with varying levels of opacity? i thought you couldn't.

convert to halftones?

**vbskimva** · 12-04-2008, 05:22 PM

I got cs3 extended from my friend, legally. The pen tool/ paths is hard to understand for me though as of now.

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 05:25 PM

ugh im an idiot, thanks xghstx.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 05:33 PM

Originally Posted by vbskimva

I got cs3 extended from my friend, legally. The pen tool/ paths is hard to understand for me though as of now.

keep practicing. getting good with software takes a ton of practice.

Originally Posted by 4evrskm::Derek

ugh im an idiot, thanks xghstx.

haha no worries. i wasn't sure if that would work or not. with stuff like shirts, what kind of file do they need to print/make screens?

**GnipGnop** · 12-04-2008, 05:35 PM

@vb: try and understand masking too early on if you can. I had to learn it later on and it was a bit tricky.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 05:38 PM

can anyone help a brother out with feathering edge in PS?

i have my selection and i click Select>Refine Edges and adjust the feather to what i want (3 px) and it shows up great in preview but when i click ok it doesn't apply the transformation. wtf.

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by xghstx

haha no worries. i wasn't sure if that would work or not. with stuff like shirts, what kind of file do they need to print/make screens?

depends on where you get them printed. most will accept either psd or ai files, and some accept tiff and others. i worked at a screenprinting place doing art like 7 years ago and had to deal with it all, including art from people who knew nothing about it, spending a day tracing terrible designs.

it's enough to make you quit.

**vbskimva** · 12-04-2008, 05:40 PM

I'll fiddle around more with photoshop over the weekend. School quizzes/tests have to be studied for on the week days, practice etc.

psdtuts.com is a good site for tutorials I'm assuming? I'm trying to use paths eventually to make the cartoon-look out of a picture of someone. Not sure exactly what its called.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by 4evrskm::Derek

depends on where you get them printed. most will accept either psd or ai files, and some accept tiff and others. i worked at a screenprinting place doing art like 7 years ago and had to deal with it all, including art from people who knew nothing about it, spending a day tracing terrible designs.

it's enough to make you quit.

ok cool. i figured they'd take ai but didn't know if they would do psd. that makes it easier than having to get special software to convert your halftones to vector halftones.

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 05:54 PM

well once you have a halftone image you can always trace it in illustrator.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 05:56 PM

live trace? does it work well?

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 05:58 PM

not too shabby.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 06:00 PM

nice. i'll have to look into that. i've always wanted to do more clothing stuff but have always limited myself to vectors... whole new ballgame now.

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 06:03 PM

yeah, i figured out that halftone thing last year and just started going to town. it's sick.

another thing i never knew about (thanks to not taking any classes) was ctrl+clicking a layer or channel to get a perfect selection. completely rocked my world.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 06:10 PM

hmmm. keyboard shortcut must be different on mac.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 06:19 PM

can i get some feedback on this please. struggling with coming up with an interesting newspaper ad for a wedding planner.

**jesse** · 12-04-2008, 06:58 PM

maybe a colon instead of a period?

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 07:02 PM

maybe make it say "a gift registry so you get the iron you actually want"?

haha.

i think it's a solid concept...

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 07:07 PM

just started messing with layer masks...wow. good tip on learning some of the options available with 'em.

tutorial i'm looking at:
http://psdtuts.com/tutorials/tools-t...on-techniques/

**GnipGnop** · 12-04-2008, 07:11 PM

Yeah they are very powerful for cutting images out instead of using the pen tool or in conjunction with the pen tool... i forget why though. I'm so out of the loop with all this...

i keep getting ideas for things I want to try out.. but i never have time it's frustrating.

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 07:16 PM

pretty sure it's because it's nondestructive editing.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by 4evrskm::Derek

maybe make it say "a gift registry so you get the iron you actually want"?

haha.

i think it's a solid concept...

bahaha nice call

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 07:20 PM

update:

**Derek Makekau** · 12-04-2008, 07:21 PM

way better.

i might try to have an item above and below "IRON" that are checked but the opacity is way down and/or they fade out so it looks like a list. does that make sense?

**GnipGnop** · 12-04-2008, 07:23 PM

WTF?????

Derek I sent Rob a picture of a mock up with that EXACT IDEA about 15 minutes ago......

edit: yeah who ever neg repped Rob under my name can frack right off.

**xghstx** · 12-04-2008, 07:24 PM

hahaha that's exactly what gnipgnop said.

p.s. derek can you drop a neg rep onto the person who negged me under gnipgnop's name. 1. it was a neutral rep and 2. i am talking to him so i know it wasn't him. thanks.