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| freedomskateboarding |
 Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 6:37 pm |
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what programs would you suggest to generate a graphic? how do you get the graphic to the screen through photo emulision? how does that work??
any suggestions would help |
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| Annex Skates |
| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 9:06 pm |
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You will have to buy a light sensitive photo emulsion and mix with diazo sensitizer in container. then you coat the screen with a thin layer of the emulsion using a emulsion coater or an old squeegee. let it dry. then you burn the screen with a 500-1000 watt halogen light with your film seps. you then washout all the unwanted emulsion with a pressure washer or with a hose or something. let dry. then your ready to print...
this is just the basic idea of it, you can check out other posts on this forum i sure its on here somewhere.
Also a speedball screen printing kit off ebay is a good thing to start with... teaches you all the basics and you get to pull a few prints, thats how i started
paul
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| Nick |
| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:37 pm |
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| I believe he is talking about computer programs, adobe photoshop or adobe illustrator is good. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:42 pm |
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| i have photoshop and illustrator, but i dont have a cd key for the latter so i cant use it. you really should get photoshop but expect to have to read some tutorials or take a class to be able to really use it, its a huge program. its 700 dollars but you can get it for free from your school (if you still are in it) or you can just be a cheap bastard like me and download it off of kazaa. |
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| Nervous |
| Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2003 11:55 pm |
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go to cracks.am and you can get a key for your program. Just watch out for the porn pop ups. =)
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| XSKATECONTROLX |
| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:20 am |
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surprisingly, photoshop 4 seems to be the best... i got to check out this place called mirror image (HUGE tshirt shop responsible for all sorts of really complex high output shit....has won awards for inventing their own form of simulation process printing in textiles), and that dude swore by photoshop 4! aparently, there is some certain output setting that works better for seps than with any version to follow. and this is a guy who does extremely tight register in printruns of 50,000+ !!! totally crazy
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| Annex Skates |
| Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 4:18 pm |
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| I usually use Adobe Illustrater 10 |
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| freedomskateboarding |
| Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:33 pm |
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has any one ever tried skatedeck.com? and has any one ever used corel draw ? easy hard good bad?
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| DunnDiego |
| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 3:08 am |
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CorelDraw is, IMO, the best vector graphic program out there. On top of that, it integrates raster/bitmap images as well. It's basically Illustrator and Photoshop all in one, although Pshop is much more powerful, with many more/better filters.
If you're gonna use CorelDraw, let me know if you have any questions, I use it daily. |
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| SkateRags |
| Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2003 9:00 am |
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| The other part of his question I think is how do you get the graphic out of the computer and on to screen. The photo sep, what the heck is that |
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