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Halftone Effect
Is there a way using Corel draw and photopaint to show our customers what a finished sign would look like with a printed halftone?
Basically we are trying to show a proof exactly as it would look when it has been screen printed
So far we have printed a range of halftones onto white paper and then scanned them into corel…………we have then been trying to take those into photopaint to remove the white background which we have done succesfully but when brought back into draw we have no control over the colour
if anybody has got the foggiest what I’m on about and has any ideas I’d love to hear them
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13 Replies
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Hi Glenn
Is it for all printed work or for 1 customer as you could just send them a print sample 😕
otherwise is there no filters in Corel, normally you can create your own then it’s a matter of filling the selected shape with the filter which might work ?
Surely you could even tell them to look at a good quality newspaper print for example and tell them it will be better than that 🙄
nit sure what else mate 😕
Warren
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do you have photoshop?
Jason
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Cheers Warren
We seem to be getting more requests for prints with halftones so we started to look for ways to give the customer a good idea of what the end result would look like
I’m not sure there is an obvious answer but I just wanted to check with the people in the know before I waste too much time on it
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Jason,
yes we have photoshop and photopaint
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why don’t you just put the sign together in photoshop for the customer?
Jason
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Basically cos I haven’t got a clue in photoshop………I keep trying to use it but can’t get on with it
I really wouldn’t know where to start drawing up a sign from scratch, let alone adding halftones
If it’s the answer though I should be looking at getting used to it
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You can still create most of it in corel, export as an eps and finish off in photoshop, should work a treat.
Jason
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can you put up a picture of what you are trying to do as I think we might not be understanding you too well, not sure what you mean regarding prints with halftone unless you mean make it look like litho print where the print is made up of halftone dots?
Thinking about it, how would it look printing halftone on a digi printer 😕
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Cheers Jason, I’ll have a better look at it
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If you get stuck send it to me and I’ll put it together for you as a psd file so you can see how we’ve put the seperate layers together.
Jason
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spot on Jason………really appreciate that
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Hi Glen, How are you going to print the halftone proof – if its on a laser printer I think it has to be a postscript to print perfect halftones – could be wrong though 😀
Cheers John
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Hi John
I think this is where I might be complicating things
What we have been trying to do is simulate a halftone effect rather than producing a proper half tone if that makes sense….so in reality we will just be printing a bitmapped halftone rather than a true halftone
my heads starting to hurt now 😀
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