The world is awash in photography, and yet this ubiquitous and essential imagery format seldom makes its way into modern letterpress printing.
For most printers, dealing with continuous-tone images has been frustrating. The need for the traditional halftone screen often produces coarse prints, difficult registration, and color issues. Through trial-and-error over the past ten years, Rebecca Chamlee has developed techniques to make the letterpress printing of four-color images not only possible but successful and beautiful.
In this technical workshop, we’ll explore the possibilities of letterpress as a means for producing successful four-color, continuous tone imagery. Rebecca will provide tips and tricks for four-color file prep, and then overprint the resulting photopolymer plates live in class. Join us for another information-packed, online Long-Distance Letterpress class as we explore:
- The history of Rebecca’s intention and process to achieve innovative results
- Choosing and editing, and color separating photographs in Photoshop
- Soft proofing in InDesign
- Preparing files for negative output and photopolymer plate making
- Strategies for the letterpress printing of multiples in tight registration
All participants will receive a copy of the class project via snail mail.
International students: please email [email protected] to register.