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Using the Tone Curve
Whether you are Screen Printing, heat
transfer printing or Inkjet-to-Garment printing,
a common dilemma is that images tend to
get a little “muddy.” If you have a file with
lots of detail in the shadow areas, this will
probably be lost when printed so you need
to adjust the “density levels” of the image. In
FastARTIST, go to the Bitmap dropdown menu,
and then select CMYK Color Adjustments >
Curves . In Photoshop, go to Image > Adjustments > Curves .
The Tone Curve is a very powerful tool that allows
you to adjust specific tonal areas from the lightest
“Highlights” to the darkest “Shadows.” By placing
your cursor in the middle of the “Midtones” curve and
dragging the mouse up or down, you can
lighten/darken the medium, or Midtones, in an image.
By clicking on the very top corner and dragging
the mouse in, you can make the highlights lighter
(Photoshop). Play around with the Tone Curve and
see what happens. A good curve for flat images is a slight “S”, where you lighten
the highlight area (35%) and darken the shadow area (75%).
In later versions of Photoshop (CS through CS3), similar adjustments can be
made using the Shadow/Highlight dialogue under Image > Adjustments . Make
sure you click the “Show More Options” check box for additional settings.
Bitmap Editing in FastARTIST
Photoshop is always in bitmap mode
because it is a pixel-based editing program.
FastARTIST (along with CorelDRAW and Adobe
Illustrator) defaults to vector mode when you
launch the program, so you will need to find
the bitmap editing tools in these programs. In
FastARTIST, double-click on the image. That
changes the top Toolbar icons to standard
bitmap editing mode (very similar icons to
Photoshop).
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