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CMYK Color Separation with Halftones | Affinity Screen Printing Tutorial

By Design Made Simple

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This is an AI-generated summary of “CMYK Color Separation with Halftones | Affinity Screen Printing Tutorial” — a 9 min YouTube video by Design Made Simple, published May 20, 2026. It condenses the full transcript into 9 key takeaways with clickable timestamps.

Summary

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform CMYK color separation by channel using halftones in Affinity, converting a graphic into an image composed entirely of halftone dots and showing how to export individual channels.

Key Points

  • The tutorial demonstrates how to perform CMYK color separation using halftones in Affinity, converting a graphic into an image composed of halftone dots for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. 
  • Begin by creating a new document, ensuring it is set to CMYK color mode with a 300 DPI resolution, and adjust the canvas size if needed. 
  • Rasterize the graphic layer and navigate to the pixel environment to access the individual CMYK channels. 
  • Crucially, set unique screen angles for each channel: 15° for cyan, 75° for magenta, 0° for yellow, and 45° for black, then apply the filter. 
  • Apply a "round" halftone filter to each channel, using a consistent cell size (e.g., 10) for all. 
  • After applying halftones to all channels, enable their visibility to see the complete color-separated image composed of halftone dots. 
  • To create individual printable separations, right-click each channel in the channels menu and select "Load to Pixel Selection." 
  • With the selection active, create a new fill layer using black as the fill color, then deselect and rename the layer to its corresponding color (e.g., "cyan"). 
  • Repeat this process for each CMYK channel to generate separate, exportable halftone layers suitable for screen printing or other individual channel applications. 
CMYK Color Separation with Halftones | Affinity Screen Printing Tutorial

CMYK Color Separation with Halftones | Affinity Screen Printing Tutorial

This tutorial demonstrates how to perform CMYK color separation by channel using halftones in Affinity, converting a graphic into an image composed entirely of halftone dots and showing how to export individual channels.

Key Points

—The tutorial demonstrates how to perform CMYK color separation using halftones in Affinity, converting a graphic into an image composed of halftone dots for cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
—Begin by creating a new document, ensuring it is set to CMYK color mode with a 300 DPI resolution, and adjust the canvas size if needed.
—Rasterize the graphic layer and navigate to the pixel environment to access the individual CMYK channels.
—Crucially, set unique screen angles for each channel: 15° for cyan, 75° for magenta, 0° for yellow, and 45° for black, then apply the filter.
—Apply a "round" halftone filter to each channel, using a consistent cell size (e.g., 10) for all.
—After applying halftones to all channels, enable their visibility to see the complete color-separated image composed of halftone dots.
—To create individual printable separations, right-click each channel in the channels menu and select "Load to Pixel Selection."
—With the selection active, create a new fill layer using black as the fill color, then deselect and rename the layer to its corresponding color (e.g., "cyan").
—Repeat this process for each CMYK channel to generate separate, exportable halftone layers suitable for screen printing or other individual channel applications.
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