I work in the screen printing industry and one of the things that is generally very difficult to do without many hours of work is take a photographic image and make it work for the screen printing press. An expert can do it in 15-30 minutes.
For most non skin-tone images (we generally fall back to heat transfer for human faces), I wrote a GIMP plugin (in Python) that allows you to extract each color of the image into its own layer with an automated process that’s done in a few seconds.
It’s not as good as the expert result, but it’s also infinitely easier to do. Also, GIMP 3 released like a month after this was finished and I don’t know if I can be bothered to port it.
Just did a super complex recreation of a 1968 Fender Telecaster Blue Floral print so I can attempt to recreate the original foil paper used in their production.
Still learning the ropes on silk screening. Good friend is an expert, but he doesn’t have a lot of free time.
I work in the screen printing industry and one of the things that is generally very difficult to do without many hours of work is take a photographic image and make it work for the screen printing press. An expert can do it in 15-30 minutes.
For most non skin-tone images (we generally fall back to heat transfer for human faces), I wrote a GIMP plugin (in Python) that allows you to extract each color of the image into its own layer with an automated process that’s done in a few seconds.
It’s not as good as the expert result, but it’s also infinitely easier to do. Also, GIMP 3 released like a month after this was finished and I don’t know if I can be bothered to port it.
Here’s the page for the project: https://github.com/otacon239/inksplit
Dude. I wish I had known about this a month ago.
Just did a super complex recreation of a 1968 Fender Telecaster Blue Floral print so I can attempt to recreate the original foil paper used in their production.
Still learning the ropes on silk screening. Good friend is an expert, but he doesn’t have a lot of free time.
I will warn you it’s a bit of a hassle to get working due to GIMP and Python’s version hell.
If you want me to try and help, feel free to DM me and I’ll do my best. I’ve only done like 4 successful prints with it so far.
I’ll take a look at the code and let you know if I can help