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May 14, 2021 Jacelyn Wedman

3 Tips to Master Hand Lettering
Hand lettering is a great way to take your designs one step further. It takes a lot of practice to master the trade. Golden Press Studio’s graphic designer Cory Romeiser walks through the basics of hand lettering and gives three helpful tips to help level up your lettering style.
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February 26, 2021 Jacelyn Wedman

How to Invert a Design in Adobe Illustrator
Let’s face it: not all customers send in perfect designs. Sometimes, artwork needs some tweaks (or a complete redo). Say you’re given artwork originally printed on a white background with black lines, but the client wants it printed on black with white lines. Simply changing the black lines to white lines doesn’t always cut it. The artwork looks fine, but not as good as it could look. By inverting the artwork in Adobe Illustrator, you can make your artwork stand out. Cory Romeiser of Golden Press Studio shows you how to invert artwork in Adobe Illustrator to make your life a little easier.
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January 22, 2021 Sage Larson

How to Make a Custom Print Shop Logo
When launching a new business, one of important tasks you need to tackle is creating a logo. If you don't have a graphic design background, making a logo can be daunting. Luckily, a fellow graphic designer has made your life a little easier. Cory Romeiser of Golden Press Studio walks you through how you can make your own unique logo by using elements from the Screen Printers Branding Starter Pack.
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January 6, 2021 Sage Larson

How to Use the Stipple Shading Brushes in Procreate
Looking to add depth to a design? A simple way to achieve that look is to use a shading technique. But, where do you shade? How do you get it to fade out? How do you make it look good? Cory Romeiser from Golden Press Studio demonstrates techniques to using the Tattoo Stipple Brush Pack in Procreate so you can make your next design look fantastic.
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October 7, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Create a 5 Color Print Using 3 Colors
There may be a time when a customer requests a multicolor print that requires more colors than your press can handle. Luckily, you have a few tricks you can do to make it work. Screen printing expert Colin Huggins will walk through creating the artwork for the print and how to set it up on press.
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September 16, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Screen Print Wet on Wet Halftones and Color Blends for a Vintage Look
Remember when expert Colin Huggins showed how to create halftones and blends in Adobe Illustrator? Now he's printing that design. Watch to learn how to print wet-on-wet halftones and blends, tips to get the best colors and blends, and how shirt colors affect the look of the print.
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September 2, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Color Separate Blends and Halftones for Screen Printing in Adobe Illustrator
Screen printing master Colin Huggins is here with another deep dive into artwork! In the latest video, Colin explains how to do color separations for blending and halftones in Adobe Illustrator. He shares insights about the techniques that'll dial in your design and make it ready for perfect blending. Take a look!
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July 29, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Create a White Underbase in Adobe Illustrator
And we're back to Screen Printing Art 101! If you watched the video about making color separations in Adobe Illustrator, you'll want to watch our latest video as well. Screen Printing Expert Colin Huggins walks you through the process of creating the white underbase in Illustrator.
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July 1, 2020 Sage Larson

A Close Up Look of Screen Printing Emulsion Under a Microscope
Once you have picked a screen, coated it, exposed it, and washed it out, the burned screen is ready to go. As you analyze the screen and stencil, have you ever wondered how the fine details look up close?
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May 20, 2020 Luke Ryerkerk

Simple Color Separations In Illustrator Tutorial
For some screen printers, using illustrator to separate colors can be overwhelming at times. Luckily, the main roadblock people run into is but is over-thinking the process. In this video, I will show a simple way to separate a design using some key tools in Illustrator.
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May 6, 2020 Sage Larson

Artwork Made Simple — New Art Digital Services
We're pumped to announce the launch of our new digital art services. Artwork.Halftoned.com, powered by GraphX Source, will help you with your art that needs to be vectorized, color separated, or digitized, and get it back quickly and print-ready at a reasonable price.
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April 14, 2020 Sage Larson

How to Use Vector Textures in Your Design for Screen Printing
Art vector packs are a powerful tool for any printer. To make that tool useful for you, you need to know how to use it. Cory Romeiser, the artist behind Golden Press Studio's art vector packs, walks through the process of applying the texture pack to your designs in our latest video.
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