Ok, loves,
So I'm writing this time as a way to thank Elizabeth Mott, a writer, teacher, and unbeknownst to her, a great helping hand in today's events. The internet, as we know is the new school. You can find just about everything you want to learn, from how to bake gingerbread cookies, to how to build a time machine. From Youtube, to tumblr, to wordpress, to Google and Pinterest, to Instructables, I have walked across the halls of these pages and learned more in minutes than I could have learned in a classroom. So thank you Elizabeth Mott, for being on of these internet teachers.
That being said, I would like to share with you all who are printing on your own, or learning about printing, this article that she wrote Houston Chronicle called-(click on title for article.
How to Convert a Channel Into a Layer in Photoshop
I have been preparing for an upcoming festival all week, and just today, while looking over one of the designs, I, as a curious person, clicked on the channel palette. This is where you can separate the 4 colors for 4 color processing, silkscreening, etc. I was amazed at the way each image looked with just the cyan and black on, or the yellow and black on and so forth. But, how do I print a channel?
Here's where Google came in. I quickly started looking up channels and printing with photoshop, and went across the gamut of all the pages mentioned earlier, but kept coming across the same answers. Answers that were complicated, and time consuming. Answers that almost made me give up. I wasn't looking for silkcreening processes or sending color samples to the lab. I just wanted to print what I saw on my screen.
I took a breath, and started my hunt over. I asked Google Exactly what I wanted, and there was the answer, by chance that my finger pressed on it, because it wasn't at the top of the list. Something pushed my fingers to press that page. The page. That link up there. Now, like Tank in the Matrix and a few screens open, plus photoshop and this page, I went back and forth, and read then did, and read some more, then did, and viola! It happened. What was once a channel, now blossomed into a layer. So,thank you Elizabeth Mott, again.
And now, for the festival, I am gonna have an additional set of secret prints, which will include this new knowledge and these Channel Prints!!!