Easily Create Halftones in Photoshop for DTF, DTG and Silkscreen Shirt Printing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2024
- In this 12 minute tutorial, you will learn how easy it is to create your own Halftone image files in Photoshop for black DTF garment printing/transfers. Halftones give your DTF prints a very soft feel since you are essentially removing lots of the black ink prints from your film because it allows the use of the black color of the garment as the black part of the print. This also saves lots of ink (for those who own a DTF printer) and the images look and feel great! You can do this with an RGB PNG file or a CMYK file. At the end of creating the halftone, you just have to be sure to save your print-ready file as a TRANSPARENT PNG, PSD, PDF or whatever your printer requires in order to print.
One VERY IMPORTANT thing I did not mention in this video is to NOT resize your final Halftoned files when printing. The dot size is optimal for printing when it is created and reducing the file AFTER it has been halftoned will reduce the dot size and will give unexpected results. It is best to always halftone your file at the size you will print it.
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The BEST tutorial for halftones I have watched! I now have complete control over my halftones and it only takes me about 2 minutes to make them. Very informative and straight to the point. Thank you!!!!
Thank you!
I have seen many videos about this, and all of them explain steps that I don't understand, I make them and they work,but I don't understand why I make it. Whith this method I understand what you make and why, thank you for simplying things and getting same results!!!
This is by far the best video on learning how to do halftone on a black shirt!!! Thanks
Thank you so much for providing this video. You made it so easy for anyone to understand. I often had trouble creating halftones. Thank you so much. Please continue to share videos like this for people like me who are just learning.
Great tutorial
Thank you! Cheers!
👏 Awesome, Best tutorial I’ve seen for preparing artwork for DTF Printing.👏👌👍💪
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent. Thank you. Have to watch several times. I'm a newbie in Photo shop.
Adjusting the levels on CMYK individually to max out to white is not something Ive seen in other tutorials, but it seems like it would yield more precision of color hypothetically. That was a cool tip thanks - great tutorial.
Best girl I have seen this will help me start my t shirt business God bless you
A similar tutorial explaining how to do this for shirt colors other than black would be great. I imagine only a few steps to be different, but it would be appreciated if you might decide to do an any color tutorial.
You really can't do halftoning in other colors except White. You would have to REMOVE (halftone) the color of the shirt on your print. For example, if you had a red shirt, you would have to halftone the reds on your design in order to use the red of the shirt as the red ink on your designs. You could technically do it, but you would get unexpected results at the end. There is a simulated halftone process that you can do for colored shirts, but the image will not be as vibrant, it will actually make the image pretty pale.
@@ARPRINTthanks for replying, and a great, easy-to-follow tutorial.
This video was very helpful
Thank you for sharing 🙏☀️
Wow! I was over here trying to accomplish this by following other videos but this one is definitely the best video for this! I finally got it and it was really easy to do! Thank you SOOO MUCH!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! This was so helpful. It was really detailed and easy to follow.
Glad it was helpful!
thanks, i was following someone else and not as good of halftones thanks for the video very helpfull
Glad I could help
Thanks straight forward video
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
most detailed tutorial on halftone I ever watched! Can you make a video on halftoning an image if it has glow effects or fading effects for ?
yes I will make one...it is pretty much the same process, the ONLY difference is that you have to flatten your Duplicated image on top of the black background (not have it as a transparent layer) and then do all the steps in this video.
awesome looking forward to it, in the meantime I will keep practicing! Thank you ! @@ARPRINT
could you do a tutorial with this image on a white shirt
Can I print directly from Photoshop or will I have to get CADLink or Acrorip?
It depends on your equipment, but it is always best to use a RIP software like cadlink or acrorip or others, to give you more control when printing.
Great video! But why do you have to convert the image to halftone if you want to print it with DTG Print? Or could it have been printed in its original state?
It could be printed in its original state in DTG, but halftoning it could give it a "comic book" look for those that want to learn how to create comic book style halftones as well.
can you make a tutorial for white t shirts ? this only works for black shirts
Invert the colors? that should work
Do you have this saved as a action (.atn) file ?
I didn't want to create an action because 1) it is very simple to do this as this video shows and 2) each design will require different input Levels, so you would have to modify Levels for each design to get the best Halftoning result.
thank you so much after looking for so many vids on how to do this i found the perfect one. very informative and detailed -midnightsokudo
Glad it helped!