Max Chroma Color Blender & Halftone Tessellator - Custom Index Re-Coloring Technique Example 1

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This video is an introduction to some of the ways in which I utilize all the various tools and techniques available within a program like Adobe Photoshop along with actions and plugins that I have created such as the Color Blender & Halftone Tessellator.

This particular example of the automobile, presents certain color blending types where it starts to be more useful to get into making a Custom "Color Separation", if you were intending to create screens for screenprinting this image.

I show how the default halftone-tessellation methods of the plugin will create accurate blends, but it uses preset primary hue-divisions and mixing with black, grey, and white, to create the tan and brown shades of the body in the car image. Sometimes you may want to print large areas of a specific tone with exactly that color of ink in screenprinting.

There is a technique that I like to use where I go and convert the image into high-resolution, use Photoshop's INDEX mode to produce an accurate blend of the image with the Custom Colors included, then I use the Color Table while in index mode to "trick" the colors into the hue-division blends that will be more easily converted automatically into a blend of halftones by using the plugin in certain modes such as the 12-Hue +1 Grey Layer Rip-Seps. This way I can just convert the pure hues of halftones back into the custom colors that I selected for the index mode, and not have to manually extract each custom gradient of color and convert it halftones for printing manually.

Once done with the separation, I can convert each of these layers into just black over a white background, and print onto film for exposing the screens for screenprinting.

This is just one technique of many that I utilize in doing this kind of work. Stay tuned for more examples and all the tricks of the trade that I use in my work for extracting tones of color from images and making adjustments, masks, re-coloring, or printing in various ways like digital or screenprinting.

This trick is not presented as "the perfect" way to generate color separations for printing, but it is a very different approach that results in very clean halftone blends which interlock with each other for the printing process, and eliminates a lot of time spent trying to do manual color separations one by one into gradients, and then convert to halftones manually. I will teach all of the techniques I have learned and utilize over the years, and almost all of the tools I offer are FREE for download, except the Master Colorist Action Pack which gets into some of the latest advancements I've made in automated these kind of processes. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61H5lzqbL-Q