Photoshop tech help plz

[tripperfunster]

I'm entering a t-shirt design contest, and the rules (or rather, tech guidlines) are thus:

Use Pantone Solid Coated color swatches for your design or else we will have to convert your colors
Maximum of 6 spot colors
Gradients & Halftones:
Photoshop users, make certain that your halftones are 30 LPI or larger for a full-size design at 300 DPI.


What does that mean? I plan to ink my design (traditional media) then upload it and colour it in photoshop. Is there anything I need to do to make sure I stay within these parameters??

thanks in advance!

Comments

[rexluscus.livejournal.com]

So what you do is go to "Image" > "Adjustments" and then "Levels". You'll see a little graph with three sliders underneath. Move the two outer sliders closer to the center until you've got the right level of black-and-white contrast (that is, enough so that your lines are really dark and your bg is white, but not so much that your line starts to break up and look all jagged).

There's also a quick way of making your background white (instead of paper-colored) which is to select the far-right eyedropper icon in the "Levels" dialogue box and click it on the background of your image. That selects your paper tone and changes it to white.

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Oh yay!!! *brain is full of info*

thank you so much!!!!!