In our example, the selection we made showed that some of the lighter red color was being selected, so we pulled back the Fuzziness slider slightly (we’ll add the lighter colors later).Ĭlick OK to accept the color range settings and press the M key to select the Rectangle Marquee tool (or any marquee tool, it doesn’t matter which one). This will show a preview on your document with your selection in color and everything else in white. One way to help with this is to change the Selection Preview from None to White Matte. Very often you’ll need to move the Fuzziness slider to include all the selected areas, but if you do, be careful not to go too far, or similar colors will be selected. Using this option will help make your selection precise. After you’ve made your selection, activate the Selection radio button to see your selection as a mask, with the white areas representing your selection and the black areas indicating what isn’t selected. (Choose a main color at 100% opacity, not a color that’s at a reduced opacity.) Make sure the Image radio button is active, and use the Eyedropper tool in the dialog to select an area of your first color (we chose the dark red color) in the dialog’s preview section.
In your original document, choose Select>Color Range to select your first color. To make things easier, go to Window>Arrange>Tile to create a split screen of your two documents. This will create a new document the same size as your original. To do this, go to File>New and in the New dialog, click the Preset drop-down menu and choose your existing artwork document. One of the simplest ways to create a spot color version of a document is to create a second document the same size as the first. Then, go to File>Open to open your existing artwork. To get started, open Photoshop and go to Window>Application Frame to set up your canvas (you’ll need this for the next step). Your job will be easier if you either have an image with a limited number of colors, or you alter some colors to limit the total number of colors. When you’re working with existing artwork in Photoshop and you don’t have layers, you have to manually create the separations by selecting each main color and creating spot color channels. Notice that some of the design is missing on the gold color artwork where the green text will print. When you look at the separated artwork, whatever is being printed at 100% appears black while anything using less ink (to create a lighter color) appears in shades of gray. A two-color logo, in this example green and gold, requires two separations: one for each color. Although talking to a T-shirt screen-printing company for advice is always a good idea, here are the basics of making spot-color separations.īefore we go into a detailed description of creating separations in Photoshop, here’s a quick primer.
You’ve made a great design for a client and now they need it printed on T-shirts-and they have asked you for separations.
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