Harvester of Sorrow

[DocJr]

Understood.

A buddy of mine just got hired at a T-Shirt printing facility, and he was explaining to me only using 3 colors to do a project. That's gotta be challenging...it's not like doing a photoshop illustration for the hell of it, you actually have to make it printable...so that it looks right.

With that said I can understand where the 10+ colors came from, you're not using cheater tools like dodge, burn, erase, when you do a gradient from dark to light you actually set the gradient up with a darker pantone color at one end, and a lighter pantone color at the other end, and possibly some in between...challenging stuff!

[city_ofthe_south]

It's tricky enough that there are people who deal with this stuff for a living. I'm no wizard by any stretch. I have my monitors calibrated "as good as I can" with less than high-end hardware, work from a Pantone book, and 9.5 times out of 10 I get exactly what I want in the final product. The other times I go get me some proofs from a local print shop who knows their ****, make adjustments, take Ibuprofen, repeat.