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 […]
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 […]
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 One of them was using a super outdated version of Corel Draw, the other was using Macromedia Freehand before Adobe bought them up, and here […]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, […]
With great power comes great responsibility. So if you built your screen printing website you’re probably drowning in new customers and need a way to manage all of these new accounts. Oh and you’ll probably want a way to invoice them and get paid in a timely and streamlined way too. You need accounting software […]
