Every week I gather up my favorite free templates, textures, brushes and fonts and bring them to you. Basically anything that I think will help screen printers and graphic designers get things done and make their lives easier. Tools for Designers All of the downloads below are free for this week only so you’ll need […]
I’ve gotten a few questions involving overprints in my inbox. What are overprints? How do you make an overprint? So I wanted to share a quick explanation of what overprints are and how to make them in Illustrator. Quick and easy. For more Illustrator videos, check out my Ultimate Guide to Illustrator for Screen Printers. […]
When I first started my career as a graphic designer it was at a print shop here in Houston. I was a production artist and in that time I saw a lot of other artists come and go (usually in epic meltdown fashion). But luckily I was able to hang on and eventually became the […]
You guys are awesome and gave a very warm welcome to my Ultimate Guide to Using Illustrator video series. There were a ton of comments and I got a lot of emails based on those videos, and the number one thing you guys asked for was help with Photoshop as well. Especially how to do color separations in […]
If your print shop has an art department, you know how important it is to get things out on time to make your customers happy and you happy. Not-Missing-Deadlines:It makes everybody happy!™ The longer a design request sits in your art department, the more money you are losing plain and simple. The goal should be […]
When I first got hired to work as a production artist at a print shop, there were already two other artists on-board and we were all using different design software. One of them was using a super outdated version of Corel Draw, the other was using Macromedia Freehand before Adobe bought them up, and here […]
RIP software is pretty important to the print shop workflow because it gives you outstanding control of your halftones, allows your wide format printer to handle large file sizes without locking up, and more importantly it saves you time. Usually you can hit print from your art program, select your RIP software and halftone settings […]
Let’s face it, sometimes when you’re dealing with another customer’s artwork it can be tough to get them to send you the correct file. You might request that they send you print ready vector art and all they have is a screenshot pasted into a Word Document. When you finally get vector art from them, […]
