Watch me Create a Bowman Chrome Bryce Harper in front of your Very Eyes!

mouschi

I had a TON of fun doing this and hope you all enjoy it as well.  My friend asked how plates of only 4 colors could be used to create such beautiful full color cards, and I thought I'd run through it on photoshop.  Check the video below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXI8b2B15Eo

Basically, here are the cliff's notes:

I took all the plates I picked up ...

and scanned them into photoshop and set each layer to "darken".

Merging them is a fun mess

How can this ever create something cool?

All lined up and flipped around!

With a chrome border

I really enjoyed seeing all the colors coming together and hope you got a kick out of it too!

Huskies11

This is so darn cool. I've always wondered how this worked. TanMan you have some of the best content around!

mouschi

@Huskies11 said:
This is so darn cool. I've always wondered how this worked. TanMan you have some of the best content around!

Thanks Huskies11!

BLUEJAYWAY

Excellent.

Sdub

I can't believe you did this without Canseco's approval. Looks awesome

Stone193

Thanx Tanner.

I enjoyed the presentation buddy.

What many call "base" cards are "offset" printed - thus the plates are positive.

I'd like to know how they "direct print" the chromes - do you know anything about the method.

There was a major commotion by the purists when cards started changing in appearance.

I remember when they complained about gold foil stamping.

UV coated full bleed cards were getting little love by some.

And then, in 1993 - the Chrome Refractor!

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mouschi

@Stone193 said:
Thanx Tanner.

I enjoyed the presentation buddy.

What many call "base" cards are "offset" printed - thus the plates are positive.

I'd like to know how they "direct print" the chromes - do you know anything about the method.

There was a major commotion by the purists when cards started changing in appearance.

I remember when they complained about gold foil stamping.

UV coated full bleed cards were getting little love by some.

And then, in 1993 - the Chrome Refractor!

Thanks! I know when I create chrome refractor style cards (not with plates) for my own collection, I have to first print them in reverse myself. Unfortunately, I know very little about how the big boys do it.

@BALROG said:
Hey Mouschi,
After watching this and hearing your voice, have decided you're not the insane wackjob psycho I thought you were

You sound.. like normal !

LOL! I'm glad my voice hides my craziness a bit

baseballfan

very cool. now I know why my cards look like that

flcardtrader

Awesome content as usual - thanks for sharing!

addicted2ebay

Very cool Tanner. Many people are surprised to learn that it takes only four colors ( C M Y K) to make just about every photo you see.

My old man actually owns a print shop.

Here is one of his machines... a 6 color W/ aqueous coating tower.

Unfortunately he prints no sports cards but he does posters, score cards ect. for our local sports teams like the Tigers, Red Wings.

mouschi

Very cool! I searched youtube and found a neat video of how printing plates themselves were made. It was neat in and of itself.

@addicted2ebay said:
Very cool Tanner. Many people are surprised to learn that it takes only four colors ( C M Y K) to make just about every photo you see.

My old man actually owns a print shop.

Here is one of his machines... a 6 color W/ aqueous coating tower.

Unfortunately he prints no sports cards but he does posters, score cards ect. for our local sports teams like the Tigers, Red Wings.