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Teaching About Prepress File Prep and Color Separation: Any Suggestions?

Posted on Nov 24, 2012 by marcia blanco Latest activity: Mar 22, 2013

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I'm deep into my color unit in my Design & Visual Communications class. We are almost through the color theory piece and I'm about to delve into four color separation, process vs spot colors and custom color organization in Illustrator, InDesign and PS. Does anyone have any ideas for activities or helpful sites I can use to supplement what can be a dull lecture? (My school is in the middle of nowhere so a trip to an offset printer is out of the question.)

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Tarek Bahaa

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 10:47 AM - Permalink

or in my resources you will find :

Advanced Computer Graphic

Tarek Bahaa

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 10:47 AM - Permalink

or in my resources you will find :

Advanced Computer Graphic

Tarek Bahaa

Posted on Mar 22, 2013 10:36 AM - Permalink

This is some point you can work on it

Working with color

1.Defining printing requirements

2.Process Color

Spot Color

Computer in prepress

Computer Aided Design (CAD)

Classification Printing Techniques

Anatomy of a Digital Image

Pixels and Bit Depth

Resolution

Spatial Resolution

Addressable Resolution

Apparent Resolution

Visual Acuity & Maximum Resolving Power

Halftone Screening

Contone Imaging

Alternative Screening (Dithering)

Color Basics

Measuring Color

Color Management System

Color Mode

1.RGB

CMYK

Color Gamut

Montage

Electronic Montage Programs

Color Separation

Color Separation Techniques (CTF - CTP

Adobe Education

Posted on Mar 7, 2013 4:14 AM - Permalink

Have you looked into the Adobe Kuler site: https://kuler.adobe.com/ and this PDF on color management: http://edex.adobe.com/resource/ae59bbaf73/. Cheers, ~Adobe Education

marcia blanco

Posted on Mar 3, 2013 10:50 PM - Permalink

Hi Peter ! Can you get specific on how you do this? Do I just print out the separated colors on transparencies?

Peter Stearns

Posted on Feb 27, 2013 12:11 AM - Permalink

Hi. Are you able to have students output separations to clear transparency? Take a photo and output CMYK. I find having students create a rudimentary "color key" is a lot of fun. They can see how the colors build on each other. Sometimes it's a magical experience.