I design band tees and streetwear graphics, and I’m hunting for a current class on simulated process/index seps for screen printing — Photoshop + Illustrator workflow, 8–10 color press, Pantone matching and halftone angles. I’ve outgrown the intro stuff on Skillshare; has anyone taken something in the last 6 months you’d vouch for (Ryonet, Catspit, Printavo Academy), ideally with downloadable practice files?
Took @Ryonet’s Golden Press Studio sim-process/index seps workshop in August; it nailed the PS→AI handoff, 8–10 color press setup, Pantone matching, and halftone angles with on-press tests. Only caveat: their sim-process defaults (45 lpi, 22.5° family) ran a bit soft — on ringspun I go 55 lpi and move K to 67.5° to keep moiré down. Worth it if you’ve outgrown Skillshare.
Building on @jesbake, Catspit’s advanced separations livestream in July nailed the PS→AI workflow and an “8–10 color press” setup with Pantone spot checks; they even share a trapping/choke template. Caveat: it’s pricier and the replay window is short, . If you’d rather self-pace, Scott Fresener’s T-Seps mini class + plugin is a cheaper, solid alternative: https://t-seps.com.
I did Printavo Academy’s color seps lab recently (https://www.printavo.com/academy) and the best takeaway was setting Pantones as LAB in PS and “locking angles in the RIP” — I run C/M/Y/K at 22.5/52.5/7.5/82.5 on 230 mesh and proof a 1" rosette strip; if you’re on a lot of heathers, bump index to about 200 ppi to tame speckle — what RIP are you on?