T-Shirt Design & Printing Process
T-Shirt Design & Printing Process
You've been learning a lot about Photopea and how to create art and manipulate images and that's great, but what can you do with this knowledge? Eventually you might want to use this knowledge for employment or creating artwork that you can make money from. You can get into areas such as advertising or web page design, etc. One of these areas might be to create artwork for T-shirts. When you design artwork for a T-Shirt, you can't just sketch out a drawing and tell a T-shirt printing company to make a T-shirt out of it. There are very important things you need to know when you create your design that will save you & the printing company a lot of headaches, as well as saving you $$$$. The videos below will explain the silkscreening process and what you need to consider when creating the artwork for your T-shirt design/s.
You've been learning a lot about Photopea and how to create art and manipulate images and that's great, but what can you do with this knowledge? Eventually you might want to use this knowledge for employment or creating artwork that you can make money from. You can get into areas such as advertising or web page design, etc. One of these areas might be to create artwork for T-shirts. When you design artwork for a T-Shirt, you can't just sketch out a drawing and tell a T-shirt printing company to make a T-shirt out of it. There are very important things you need to know when you create your design that will save you & the printing company a lot of headaches, as well as saving you $$$$. The videos below will explain the silkscreening process and what you need to consider when creating the artwork for your T-shirt design/s.
Note: There is no actual project in this section but the information you will learn is vital to know when creating T-Shirt design artwork. There will be an open book test on the information contained within the text on this webpage as well as the info presented in the videos. Make sure to be on the lookout for the test assigned through Google Classroom and the due date when it gets released.
This video shows you examples of artwork I created for T-shirts over the years and uses one example to demonstrate and explain how the image was created with just a few colors. It also shows you that even with these limitations that some pretty cool artwork can be created to show off your artwork on the chests or backs of many that display your work.
This video shows you examples of artwork I created for T-shirts over the years and uses one example to demonstrate and explain how the image was created with just a few colors. It also shows you that even with these limitations that some pretty cool artwork can be created to show off your artwork on the chests or backs of many that display your work.
This video takes you inside a T-shirt printing shop to show you the process from beginning to end and what the printshop has to do print your artwork to the shirts that your customers will be wearing. Seeing this process and understanding how it works will help you in understanding the "Why" in your T-shirt art design process.
This video takes you inside a T-shirt printing shop to show you the process from beginning to end and what the printshop has to do print your artwork to the shirts that your customers will be wearing. Seeing this process and understanding how it works will help you in understanding the "Why" in your T-shirt art design process.
T-shirts can only have a limited amount of colors. Anti-aliased lines or edges create the illusion of a smooth line or edge by mixing a bunch of colors together. Aliased edges or areas have a single color. While an aliased edge is more jagged (pixelated) looking, it's what should be used when creating artwork for T-shirt designs. It's also important to create your image so that it has a resolution of 300 pixels per inch (or maybe even higher). The lower the resolution, the more jagged or pixelated the edge will appear.
T-shirts can only have a limited amount of colors. Anti-aliased lines or edges create the illusion of a smooth line or edge by mixing a bunch of colors together. Aliased edges or areas have a single color. While an aliased edge is more jagged (pixelated) looking, it's what should be used when creating artwork for T-shirt designs. It's also important to create your image so that it has a resolution of 300 pixels per inch (or maybe even higher). The lower the resolution, the more jagged or pixelated the edge will appear.
T-shirts can only have a limited amount of colors. Anti-aliased lines or edges create the illusion of a smooth line or edge by mixing a bunch of colors together. Aliased edges or areas have a single color. While an aliased edge is more jagged (pixelated) looking, it's what should be used when creating artwork for T-shirt designs. It's also important to create your image so that it has a resolution of 300 pixels per inch (or maybe even higher). The lower the resolution, the more jagged or pixelated the edge will appear.
T-shirts can only have a limited amount of colors. Anti-aliased lines or edges create the illusion of a smooth line or edge by mixing a bunch of colors together. Aliased edges or areas have a single color. While an aliased edge is more jagged (pixelated) looking, it's what should be used when creating artwork for T-shirt designs. It's also important to create your image so that it has a resolution of 300 pixels per inch (or maybe even higher). The lower the resolution, the more jagged or pixelated the edge will appear.
