Design development Tshirts

This process should illustrate in very short how I take my image from original to screen print ready. Take note that as simple as this looks it took me months of trying and testing to get the light balances right halftone mixtures and of course then comes screen printing another whole new set of variables which can change your design. 

Original

Note: make sure your working in RGB/CMYK document A3

Manual black and white on image, setting yellows/blacks/cyans and so on seperately for each image to get the balance right.

Colour half tone, on a A3 scale colour halftone of about 6 works just right, not too big to mess up the image and not too small to drop out of the screen.

This is the important bit after haltoning the image you get this cmyk halftone mixture. by then dragging this file into a greyscale file you actaully merge these halftones and get a mixture that cant be achieved while working off a greyscale file. 

playing around with curves and any other light editing taking note on the important bits you want to print, as you will always get a bit more drop out on your silkscreen then expected.

After your document is sorted you then arrive and a whole new set of variables, the margin of error is far too small for this kind of print so your exposure times, screen density and emulsion coating needs to be spot on. Mine was, after a lot of effort and testing. 

As you can see the final product looks a bit different then on screen, bit of heavy black on the nose, could of done with lightening the image this would of fixed it.