ScreenTone Pro 9001 - Ep. 4: Greyscale Color Separations for Screenprinting

[@MaxChromaColor]

Oops... I mispoke around the 18:13 mark and was saying how it is easier when you're first getting started in some screenprinting to go with "smaller" sized dots, I meant a smaller LPI but actually with LARGER sized dots, that are easier to print onto films and expose and rinse on the screens. Sorry for the mixup if it seemed confusing there! I'll show some links to the LPI halftone test files in more videos and how to do some screenprinting exposure and rinse tests for your halftone sizes, mesh counts, and screens.

[@Elizabeth-wz1ct]

Thanks for this great video and providing such great information !

[@caro_d._kyhn]

Hey Max, I need a bit of help. I have a Greyscale drawing, and wanted to print it on Black shirt with White ink Halftone. First I resized the image to around 6.3inch tall because that’s how big I want the print to be at the end. Then I used ScreenTone Pro 9001 to create a Halftone image using only black and white with round small dots 22.5 angle. Contrast on 1.1 and Image size 100%. I saved the file, and separated it in Separation studio but the result I get at the end is much bigger than the 6.3 inches I want. What do I do wrong? Any help appreciated!

[@MaxChromaColor]

It might just be the default resolution changed and if you set it to 6.3" for printing out it should still work. In the newer 2024 Beta update you can set the inch size and LPI and see the resolution, so changing the pixel image size can increase or decrease the resolution but you can keep the inch size and LPI settings of the halftones to a value you want to use. The files when saved can end up as just the pixels dimensions and you can just set resolution and print inch size when you go to output it to a printer device.

[@caro_d._kyhn]

@@MaxChromaColor I dont exactly get how to workflow should be. As a beginner it is really confusing. When do I use Screentone 9001 when do I resize and when do I seperate? No matter what I do the image size is always way bigger than the 6.3 inch I want. I resize it in photoshop but then I feel like it changes the overall print quality and end result

[@MaxChromaColor]

@@caro_d._kyhn Are you able to see the pixels width and height, and the inch size, and the DPI setting in photoshop? All you need to do is un-check the "resample" button and then you can change the inch size to 6.3 and there will be no change in quality, the DPI setting will change to make it so the pixels width and height can be printed at 6.3". A digital image is just the pixels width and height, but in different programs like photoshop you can see and set what inch size and what DPI resolution it would be with those pixels. Only when you increase or decrease the image size while having "resample" checked will it make more or less pixels and you can change the inch size and resolution together to make it larger or smaller, and choose different ways to resample.... if you don't want any change in quality then choose "Nearest Neighbor" as the resampling mode. In ScreenTone you will need to increase the pixels and DPI to get clean halftones as a separation, but in the latest update ScreenTone Eternal version these are all settings you can choose right in the app. However, when you open the file in another app like photoshop, it can default the resolution to 72 dpi and make the inch size change to reflect that DPI. Just un-check the "resample" button and change the inch-size again to what you need, and you'll see the DPI change. This is just how digital images work and it can be confusing either for beginners or even for people doing graphics for a long time, there are a lot of parameters to know about between the image size and print size and how DPI relates to that but that the pixels are the only thing really there in the image file. There are lots of videos online about image size, resolution dpi, printing dimensions, pixel dimensions, and how it all relates. When converting an image for screen printing color separations then you need to be aware and change the image pixels so there are more and therefore higher resolution when printing at a certain inch or cm size, and this allow the small halftone dots to be made of more pixels and cleaner/better shapes. If you keep your image at 6.3" but only 300 DPI, then when you convert to halftones in ScreenTone it will not be very clean dots and they will be sort of pixelated. So whether you change the image size in ScreenTone or in Photoshop, you need to just usually make it higher so the dots are cleaner, but setting it to 6.3" again when you open it in photoshop is just a simple change of the DPI or inch size and have "resample" unchecked so it doesn't change the total pixels at all... but you want the DPI resolution to be like 400, 500, 600 or higher AT the print size you want (like 6.3") so that the halftone shapes are more clean. You can split the halftones into separations in Photoshop or in the Separation Station app available on my website also. I'll try to make some videos about how to adjust the sizing and inch and LPI settings in ScreenTone Eternal and in Photoshop....but there are also a lot of videos online already about how inch and DPI resolution and pixel dimensions all relate to each other so you might want to study up on that stuff a bit also.

[@Cheeseburgerlocker]

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[@MaxChromaColor]

Hi Lane, Thanks for your subscription, did you recieve an e-mail to verify the account first? It's showing me you haven't yet done that?

[@MaxChromaColor]

I've gone and set it so you should be able to log in now either way, but I think there was a verification e-mail that was sent, you can still click to verify but also if you try logging in now it should work. Let me know if it not and I'll see why, thanks again and if you have any questions you can e-mail me or leave a comment.

[@Cheeseburgerlocker]

@@MaxChromaColor thanks for the fast reply! It works. I’m excited to put this thing to use. Thanks for all your hard work and wizardry. 🫡

[@Cheeseburgerlocker]

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[@oanjoregueiroabfranca3696]

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[@MaxChromaColor]

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[@oanjoregueiroabfranca3696]

obrigado, ficarei atento ás atualizações @@MaxChromaColor

[@oanjoregueiroabfranca3696]

Hello again. When you talk about the website, it’s the same one as in the video, ok? I have some products that I have already purchased tesselator and others. they're wonderful. As for the website, I tried logging in and even logged in with a free login. But soon it expired and I didn't have access to much, I started to do something and the page didn't give me any more options. So you mean that I can have access to the website because I have already purchased your products? Show me how please. The downloader link that comes to my email has nothing related to the website. and I don't even remember the password anymore, since I stopped logging in when I inspired. Thank you Abidias@@MaxChromaColor ola mais uma vez. quando você fala do site é esse mesmo do video ok? eu tenho alguns produtos que ja adquiri tesselator e outros. são maravilhosos. quanto ao site, eu tentei logar e até entrei com login gratuito. mais logo expirou e nao tive acesso a muita coisa começava a fazer algo e a pagina não me dava mais opç~es. então você quer dizer qeu posso ter acesso ao site pelo fato de ja ter adquirido seus produtos? me mostra como por favor. no link de dawloader que veempra meu email não tem nada relacionado ao site. e nem me lembro mais da senha, ja que parei de entrar quando inspirou. obrigado Abidias

[@MaxChromaColor]

@@oanjoregueiroabfranca3696 It is based on the original purchase and you get credit on the web app to use it for that time, I just went to your account and put the access to the full version for you. Now when you log in to the site you should see the full version links. If you forgot your password you should be able to reset it on the login page.

[@oanjoregueiroabfranca3696]

Ok obrigado, acessarei logo mais ( Ok thanks, I will access)@@MaxChromaColor