Maxie
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photoshop/printing help, by Maxie on Aug 24, 2008 11:39:58 GMT 1, Hey,
I have a photoshop image that is 3 layers (black, grey and white), it has been compressed into one picture layer.
Is there any way to print each colour layer seperately? or do i have to do it 3 times then cut out each one.
Im wanting to do this on a large scale and thinking about saving on the printer ink,
the scale is like 12 x 8 (squared) A4 pages stuck together in portrait composition.....its gonna be huge and my fingers wil bleed after cutting this all out.
Cheers for any helpyou might have
Hey,
I have a photoshop image that is 3 layers (black, grey and white), it has been compressed into one picture layer.
Is there any way to print each colour layer seperately? or do i have to do it 3 times then cut out each one.
Im wanting to do this on a large scale and thinking about saving on the printer ink,
the scale is like 12 x 8 (squared) A4 pages stuck together in portrait composition.....its gonna be huge and my fingers wil bleed after cutting this all out.
Cheers for any helpyou might have
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spirit
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photoshop/printing help, by spirit on Aug 24, 2008 13:29:44 GMT 1, If I understand you correctly, you have an image that is 3 colours (black, grey, white) which are all on the same layer.
There are a few different ways to do this, so I will describe the one I think is simplest.
What you need to do is to get those 3 colours onto 3 separate layers. To do this, use the magic wand tool with a low tolerance (say 15) and select your first colour. Then go to the select menu and choose select > similar. This will select all the areas in the image that are that colour. Then copy and paste this selection to a new layer. When you are on this new layer, select the "lock transparent pixels" checkbox in the layers pallette for that layer, select all, and fill with black (whether it was black, white or grey selected originally). Repeat the same for the other 2 colours.
So now you end up with a four layer image - the orginal + 3 colour separated layers (1 for each colour) which all have black areas where the colour goes and transparent backgrounds. Now add another new layer, fill it with white and make it the 2nd layer (so it sits below the 3 colour separated layers and above the original.
The reason you filled all 3 colour separations with black is so that you can output simple black/white images for each colour separation (if you kept your white separation as white and printed it out you wouldn't see any result as it would be white on white paper)
Finally, turn off all the layers except the white one and first separated layer and print. Then turn off the first separated layer, turn on the second and print again. Then turn off the second, turn on the 3rd and print again. You now have 3 stencils to cut out!
Hope this helps - good luck.
If I understand you correctly, you have an image that is 3 colours (black, grey, white) which are all on the same layer.
There are a few different ways to do this, so I will describe the one I think is simplest.
What you need to do is to get those 3 colours onto 3 separate layers. To do this, use the magic wand tool with a low tolerance (say 15) and select your first colour. Then go to the select menu and choose select > similar. This will select all the areas in the image that are that colour. Then copy and paste this selection to a new layer. When you are on this new layer, select the "lock transparent pixels" checkbox in the layers pallette for that layer, select all, and fill with black (whether it was black, white or grey selected originally). Repeat the same for the other 2 colours.
So now you end up with a four layer image - the orginal + 3 colour separated layers (1 for each colour) which all have black areas where the colour goes and transparent backgrounds. Now add another new layer, fill it with white and make it the 2nd layer (so it sits below the 3 colour separated layers and above the original.
The reason you filled all 3 colour separations with black is so that you can output simple black/white images for each colour separation (if you kept your white separation as white and printed it out you wouldn't see any result as it would be white on white paper)
Finally, turn off all the layers except the white one and first separated layer and print. Then turn off the first separated layer, turn on the second and print again. Then turn off the second, turn on the 3rd and print again. You now have 3 stencils to cut out!
Hope this helps - good luck.
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stickee
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photoshop/printing help, by stickee on Aug 24, 2008 14:17:19 GMT 1, ^^^ What he said 
the only thing I would add if you are worried about ink is to use a light grey instead of black and that will cut down on the ink being used
^^^ What he said the only thing I would add if you are worried about ink is to use a light grey instead of black and that will cut down on the ink being used |
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spirit
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photoshop/printing help, by spirit on Aug 24, 2008 19:11:15 GMT 1, Good point stickee - thanks.
Good point stickee - thanks.
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Maxie
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photoshop/printing help, by Maxie on Aug 25, 2008 12:43:34 GMT 1, great help guys, + respect to you for taking the time to respond. i will have a go at it now...... if i manage it ill let you know......once i have cut it and sprayed it i will post piccies, im soooo excited about this one.
edit, had a quick go and it works - nice one, i was having slight trouble with the image as i couldnt always select all the similar colour - think i need to play about with the tolerance etc when i have a little more time.
Cheers though guys this will make life much easier.
Also looking closely at the image i think it probably is more than 3 colours but only subtuly (sp) so this makes it a little more tricky.
great help guys, + respect to you for taking the time to respond. i will have a go at it now...... if i manage it ill let you know......once i have cut it and sprayed it i will post piccies, im soooo excited about this one.
edit, had a quick go and it works - nice one, i was having slight trouble with the image as i couldnt always select all the similar colour - think i need to play about with the tolerance etc when i have a little more time.
Cheers though guys this will make life much easier.
Also looking closely at the image i think it probably is more than 3 colours but only subtuly (sp) so this makes it a little more tricky.
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photoshop/printing help, by ikkeno on Aug 25, 2008 13:06:11 GMT 1, Print out your pic at home, find a decent copy shop(ask them if they got a machine that does construction drawings(cant remember what its called at the moment) and ask them to copy and rescale your a4 to a2 or a1 or what ever( a2 is probably big enough).
It takes 1 minute to do and shouldent cost you more than a couple of pounds.
Cheers.
Print out your pic at home, find a decent copy shop(ask them if they got a machine that does construction drawings(cant remember what its called at the moment) and ask them to copy and rescale your a4 to a2 or a1 or what ever( a2 is probably big enough).
It takes 1 minute to do and shouldent cost you more than a couple of pounds.
Cheers.
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spirit
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photoshop/printing help, by spirit on Aug 25, 2008 14:08:22 GMT 1, thedon - play around with the tolerance on the magic wand - the higher the tolerance, the greater the range of colours around the one you click on will get selected. Also, You can add to a selection by holding down the shift key and clicking again on a slightly different colour (and you can subtract from it by holding down the alt key and clicking again)
Glad this helped, look forward to seeing your finished image.
thedon - play around with the tolerance on the magic wand - the higher the tolerance, the greater the range of colours around the one you click on will get selected. Also, You can add to a selection by holding down the shift key and clicking again on a slightly different colour (and you can subtract from it by holding down the alt key and clicking again)
Glad this helped, look forward to seeing your finished image.
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