What’s new?
– A new set of tools Dark colors allows you to generate shadows and colorized dark shades for each color. Now you can reduce the amount of black to shade vivid colors and use more natural shadows of the desired color. These prints look more natural and professional. The Dark Colors toolbox contains ready-made options for generating shadows for each color. In addition, the set has a function to manually generate shadows. Using the Manual color button, you can adjust the color composition of each selected area.
– Mezzo-rasterization tool. Now you can use an irregular raster. 4 types of Dot work and 6 types of Line work are available + preview mode, in this mode you can see how the image will look after rasterization and choose the most suitable option. The plugin supports combining different types of raster (regular and irregular) in one file.
– Fixed bug rasterization of previous versions. Now when you select a round dot, you get a round dot of the raster.
In order to facilitate the execution of all these tasks, the Magic Buttons plugin was created. It contains the necessary tools of color separation for screen printing, with their help you simplify a number of routine tasks and can focus on the main thing.
Color separation tools
Color Filter Set. Allows you to divide any image into selected colors.
Dark colors and color adjustment set. Using this set you can adjust the composition of each selected area according to the color composition. Includes ready-made shadow patterns and manual mode with fine adjustment of color composition.
Gray Range Set. Converts an image to different parts of a gray range.
Used for color separation of mono-color images (human skin, colored glass, metal objects)
Monochrome Set. Generates two kinds of black, two kinds of gray and highlight.
Operation Set. Contains popular functions for color separation.
Rasterization set. Rasterizes the image and stores the result in the channels with the same colors that were in the original.
Suitable for both viewing and editing images in a raster, and film output.
Read more about the tools in the Functions overview
Color separation of human skin
In order for human skin to look great in screen printing, you must give it enough attention. In some cases, you can print it with red, yellow and black, but, to be honest, I do this when I am limited in the number of printing plates. With the Magic Buttons plug-in, you will always have a set of precise tools at hand.
Read more about the color separation of human skin in the Additional Colors section.
Advanced color separation tools
When preparing a color separation file, it is very often necessary to edit a separate color channel. Since in software for color separation, channels are generated using a filter system, the color composition of channels that are close in color spectrum to each other can intersect. The filter cannot completely eliminate parasitic overlays from related parts of the color spectrum on its own. Just for independent editing of the color composition of a separate channel, the Manual Color tool is provided.
With this tool, you can edit (for example) the gray color so that it matches the shade you want. The plugin generates many types of gray for comfortable work, and you can edit each of them depending on your task. This gives a huge scope for solving creative and professional problems in color separation. In this video, we will just look at an example of how the Manual Color tool works with shades of gray.
Color separation of monochrome image
When color separation of monochrome images to screen printing, tone accuracy is very important. Since all attention is focused not so much on colors, but on tone. In order to convey all the tonal hues of the image, you have several types of gray generation, manual black generation, several types of highlights.
Read more about monochrome color separation in the Gray Works section.
Users Manual
In order to understand step-by-step actions, you can download the Magic Buttons Photoshop plugin user’s manual. It describes in detail the procedure for color separation, illustrations and explanations.
Download Magic Buttons Tutorial PDF file
Read more about the features of the plugin in the Learning materials.
Screen printed and scanned
We printed and scanned several prints in high resolution and 50 LPI lineature so that you could see exactly how the finished print looks like, prepared for printing with the Magic Buttons. Scanned files can be multiplied up to fabric fibers.
See more high-resolution scanned prints in our Portfolio.
