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Texsource 3-Day Art Design Essentials Class -Nov. 1-3, 2023

SKU NCARTCLASS8-23
Original price $595.00 - Original price $595.00
Original price
$595.00
$595.00 - $595.00
Current price $595.00

THIS CLASS, DESIGNED FOR SCREEN PRINTERS, WILL BE HELD AT OUR NC FACILITY - Nov. 1-3, 2023


Every great t-shirt starts with killer artwork and the journey to awesome art starts with mastering the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. 

Together, they’re among the most powerful graphic design tools available to screen printers who take the time to learn how to make Adobe’s products work for them. 

To get the most from this class, bring your laptop and licensed copies of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator or Adobe Creative Cloud. 

This three day class is focused entirely on the skills production artists use every day to accurately and efficiently produce sharp, detailed designs that look as great on a shirt as they do on your customer proof. 

Mike Hoey, Texsource’s 35-year screen printing industry pro, put these skills to use for major brands as both a designer and as a production printer. He’s distilled three decades of design experience and hard won wisdom into three days of student focused instruction. 

Trust us. He knows what you’re struggling with. Much of Hoey’s popular #screenprintermike TikTok Channel has been focused on showing artists facing design problems how he would go about solving their specific challenges.

IF YOU'VE NEVER USED ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR OR PHOTOSHOP

We all start somewhere. Texsource will start you off right. You'll master the fundamentals of production art design and learn to confidently prepare proofs and files for film output. 

IF YOU'RE ALREADY USING ADOBE PRODUCTS DAILY

We'll teach you how to work smarter, streamline your art design workflow, help you squeeze more from these essential programs and answer specific questions. 

IF YOU'RE A PRINT SHOP OWNER WHO WANTS NOTHING TO DO WITH DESIGN

We'll teach you why you should care about art design, how smart, skilled designers can save you money and win you jobs, and how to better integrate your art design team, screen room and production staff. 


Day One 

  • Understanding and using the most important tools in Illustrator and Photoshop 
  • The power of smart workflows and reusable templates
  • Converting CMYK images to spot colors
  • Creating an underbase for light-on-dark printing
  • Create effective customer proofs
@tiktok_screen_printer Production art #screenprintermike #customtshirts #illustratortutorial #photoshoptips ♬ original sound - Screen Printer Mike

Day Two 

  • Working with distressed images
  • Learn the power of the appearance menu
  • The intricacies of converting raster images to vector designs
  • Mastering the pen tool, including digitizing designs
  • Creating custom effects, including glows and halos
  • Design with halftones in mind

Day Three 

  • Master color separations in Photoshop
  • Controlling dot gain
  • High-end separations, including spot color, CMYK and duotones
  • How to set up files for stickers, banners and heat transfers
  • Printing color separations to a postscript film output device or direct-to-screen machine 
  • How to hold detail when burning screens

Location

Texsource Screen Printing Supply
714 Cleveland Avenue
Kings Mountain, NC 28086
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From Charlotte: Located 35 minutes west of Charlotte, and Charlotte Douglas International Airport, via I-85 S. 
From Asheville: Located 97 minutes southeast of Asheville, via I-26 E and US-74 E. 
From Spartanburg: Located 54 minutes northeast of Spartanburg via I-85 N.


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*note - Texsource reserves the right to use video and photos from our classes for promotional purposes. 

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