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the sign, is an easy breakdown of layers and values. We created two separate val- ues of shadowing. One a warm darkened bone color and an earthy purplish color- ing to play off of the purple throughout the image. We added just a touch of sunny highlights. Lastly, we picked a brush style font and used the Skew option under the Edit menu from the Transform submenu. e text had to be dynamic, too. We used Layer Effects to add dimension. e bot- tom is a construct of the original face of the font with a stroke added around and then made for thick border. en we applied the Bevel & Emboss layer effect to add highlights in orange and turquoise. e inline yellow is a flat color to give a hard edge. e wood texture was a vec- tor object with a good contrast between the grains. Of course, in the DTG world there are no separations. Just file prep and optimiza- tion. In this case the client ran those steps and the print turned out awesome! We did get a package in the mail shortly thereafter. Apparently, our friends thought it would be cute to play with the word "long". Clever eh? Love it! anks guys. GP G R A P H I C S - P R O. C O M N O V E M B E R 2 0 2 2 • G R A P H I C S P R O 4 5 At 21 years old, Lon Winters was the production man- ager for Ocean Pacific and started his 30+ year career reclaiming screens. He's the president and founder of Colorado-based Graphic Elephants, an international consulting firm and apparel decoration studio special- izing in screen printing technical advances, plant design, layout, troubleshooting, productivity, quality analysis, and complete apparel decorating solutions. Learn more at www.graphicelephants.com. Of course, in the DTG world there are no separations. Just file prep and optimization. In this case the client ran those steps and the print turned out awesome!