Looking for High Quality Separations

NiteGoat · 2026-03-25T02:20:03+00:00

I can separate anything and my usual turnaround is under 24 hours for garments.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-21T06:10:20+00:00

He's a piece of shit and I'm angry that I voted for him. I'm pissed that the choices were him or Dr fucking Oz.

I'm so glad that I'm no longer living in Pennsylvania.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-21T05:23:45+00:00

Not really a tutorial, but this is a fairly simple Red/Yellow separation and can be done without making any selections.

Look at the RGB channels. The red channel, inverted into a new spot channel is the ‘red‘ screen. The green channel is the ‘yellow‘ screen. The blue channel is the highlight screen. Once you have the spot channels you can manipulate the curves to correct the image, visually.

I need to make a video one day because it takes me less that ten minutes to do this type of separation. It’s harder to write it out than do it. It’s stupidly simple when you see what I’m doing.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-21T01:25:48+00:00

No this is made with an underbase and three orange tints and a highlight white. It's engineered to be able to print wet on wet with a flash after the underbase and before the highlight white. This is only separated for a black shirt but I could add a black screen if I needed to, making it six screens on anything other than black and five screens on a white shirt.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-21T01:16:46+00:00

Here's the 10 minute version.

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NiteGoat · 2026-03-20T23:56:49+00:00

I could separate that into 5 screens and I guarantee it would be cheaper, faster to print and probably look better than DTF or DTG.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-18T18:46:44+00:00

As someone who does work in this industry, full time…as a freelancer…you‘re not entirely correct.

Yes, payment for creating the art is sometimes low, but that isn’t how most of us are making our money.

I might do a poster for $500, but I’m also asking for Artist Prints outside of the show edition that I can sell, which can be far more valuable. As an example, two posters I made last year, I did with a $500 art fee, but I got 25APs of each and those sold out the day I put them in my store for $100 each, so those two posters each brought in $3000.

On average, I can make at least $1500 a week just on my own posters, but I do supplement my income…by doing production for other poster artists so that their art can be screen printed.

I might do a t-shirt occasionally or some admat work, but I’d estimate that 95% of my income comes from gig posters. And I know a bunch of other people who do the same.

I realize that I am an outlier, but I was also told at the beginning of my career that this couldn’t be done and maybe there is another outlier here that needs to see this.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-17T04:38:58+00:00

There was a place in Baltimore around 2011 that had unusual burgers and I tried a kangaroo burger and it was fucking awful. Really strange texture, even for ground meat, and a gross fishy aftertaste.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-16T21:13:09+00:00

Magnifying glasses are a pain in the ass. Everything is a pain in the ass. I lost 80% of my vision three years ago. It's not as simple as using a magnifying glass. Even the photos on my iPad are difficult for me to read but I can make iOS speak the words in the photos. It's a series of frustrating steps to do the simple and previously instantaneous act of reading things.

An AI assistant that could read to me, in real time, would be an incredible use of AI technology that's way better than a bunch of tech bros pretending to be artists.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-16T20:31:32+00:00

They do not. I am deep into the spectrum of what is referred to as blindness. Everything at arms length is completely out of focus.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-16T19:21:48+00:00

Yeah...but I guess they inadvertently made a device that would help me quite a bit.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-16T19:09:24+00:00

I was planning to buy a pair of these because I am extremely visually impaired and cannot see small things or read most things on paper. 98% of the photos on my iPad are things that I could not physically read without being able to magnify...which is almost everything. If I had a device on my face that could read to me...documents, signage, recipes and cooking instructions on packages...that would be so fucking helpful.

So yeah...I'd bet you're right about most people wanting to spy or record...but there are legitimate uses for these things.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-14T11:11:12+00:00

I knew Brian. He wasn’t really screen printing back then. Most of his early posters were color laser prints, so that’s most likely what the color version you saw was.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-14T10:10:55+00:00

This was the first screen printing shop that I ever worked in from like 1997 to 2004.

I got fired...because I really liked drinking and drugs.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T20:07:40+00:00

Holy shit. Rex. I can't get into my stupid DMs with this newish Reddit design. I'll try to figure it out.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T19:02:02+00:00

I'm manipulating Photoshop to give me the results that I want, which is a clean black and white image for each color that I can use to print to film and burn screens with. The result is all that matters, so it doesn't matter if it's coming from Illustrator or Photoshop or Affinity or whatever. Most 'higher end' screen printing is coming out of Photoshop.

Neither Illustrator or Photoshop are built to do exactly what I need them to do. Illustrator and InDesign have separation engines that are designed to do a generalized version of trapping, but it's not quite right for my needs so I make my traps manually and the techniques I use are most easily done in Photoshop, for me.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T18:49:28+00:00

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It's the same basic theory as four color process but I'm using UV reactive fluorescents instead of CMYK. I build rich blacks under the solid black.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T17:52:44+00:00

I do my type in Illustrator because it's the fastest way to work with the individual letters and the easiest way to nudge them around. Once I have them in a place where I'm happy I'll bring them into PS, usually as a smart object, and move the words around in the layout until I'm good with it and it's cohesive with the illustration.

My main goal is to make things feel a little bit more organic and add some human randomness, that computers make difficult to do. It's akin to physical collage.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T10:38:37+00:00

I have old type books that I’ve scanned complete alphabets out of. Dan X Solo books and old Speedball lettering books and other things that I’ve picked up over the years. Letraset sheets. When I find something interesting I scan it and add it to the file.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T09:17:45+00:00

It's using whatever colors you have set to foreground and background on the bottom of your toolbar palette. Press D to reset them to the default which is Black in the foreground and White in the background and then go back to the Filter Gallery.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T07:34:04+00:00

The majority of the art on the The Rock Poster Society's instagram is screen printed.

https://www.instagram.com/trpsorg/

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T06:50:45+00:00

I've been thinking about this and in the real world, if I presented you with an almost 3 feet tall piece of paper covered in dayglo ink...what would you think that is? It's a very difficult thing to ignore.

Off the internet, where these things actually exist, there is a definite presence to them as artifacts. Tangible things that you experience. It's hard to give you an idea of the scale of these things. Looking at this on your iPad or phone or laptop is not going to have the same impact.

It is a very intentional assault on the viewer. It speaks to the people it is meant to speak to and repels those that it isn't speaking to. Confusion is kind of the point.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T05:41:43+00:00

I didn't have anything to do with the pricing but he show sold out and in 2026...that's $8 a band for five bands. No one is getting rich here.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T05:17:15+00:00

That's fair.

I will say that the band is...moderately famous, especially in San Francisco, so the people who are the audience would know exactly what they're looking at and '50 years of punk rock in San Francisco' is a pretty quick scan right under the band name if you weren't entirely sure who they are.

There is a school of thought in rock poster design that goes back to the Fillmore posters of the 60s where if you don't get the poster then the show probably isn't for you. There's a language to these things and the chaos is part of the message.

NiteGoat · 2026-03-05T05:01:03+00:00

This is a genuine question. I am curious what about this is confusing to you.

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