T Shirt Design: How to Create Color Separations for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator
This step-by-step project will go through the steps for preparing and outputting color separations for screen printing in Adobe Illustrator. The video also features useful tips and tricks, plus the technique for creating a weathered overlay effect.
0:00 Customizing a design and downloading a PDF file
0:42 Opening a PDF file in Illustrator and adjusting the artboard.
1:18 Configuring the separations preview tab and selecting CMYK color mode
1:39 Converting to spot colors and hiding the weathered overlay
3:10 Bypassing Pantone colors with Freetone colors
3:30 Working with global colors to recolor a design
4:33 Advanced editing of the vectors and masking of the weathered overlay
6:07 Changing the color of the artboard
6:28 Previewing the color separations
7:00 Outputting color separations