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How Do You Put Designs or Images On T Shirts?

Designing your own custom T-shirts can be a fun thing to do. Possibly even bring in some spare cash if you were to print and sell the shirts. All you need to either be ARTY or take some cool photos with your camera and place these images on to the shirt layout on your computer screen and then send the garment artwork off to be printed.

Here are some steps to follow if you were to start designing your own T shirts. Get Started!

Step 1: The Design Concept Stage

Before you start pulling out images for your T shirts ask yourself what do you want as the final outcome. Is your shirt going to be for business or pleasure? Are you planning a event or a birthday party or just want to have a personalized shirt done just for you? The purpose will determine the T-shirt printing outcome of the print design.

Lets check some thoughts below...

  • If you were advertsing a company and need logos printed then you must consider where do you need to have these designs printed on the shirt.
    • Is it going to be on the color, the sleeve or on the pocket of the apparel?
    • Maybe you want it just below the collar on the back?
    • Possibly you may need to get the image or graphic in the right image size and transparency.
    • Vector images are preferable.
    • Designs for teams may focus on colors while a design for a band may have images or graphics as the primary focus.
  • Now if the T-shirt was just for your personal needs you may have to take into consideration the placement of the image to give you the best look for the shirt.
    • You must think about the color of the image and choose a garment colour to bring the image out.
    • Darker images on lighter colour shirts are an example.
  • When using photos try using your own photos to start with. If using other people's images make sure you don't break copyrights unless you have legal rights to do so. You can buy stock images online and use.

Step 2 - Choosing The Right Color Scheme

While designing your T shirts think what your final outcome should be like. Use colour contrast. Quite often compter screen colours may actually come out different when they get printed on shirts. However here are 3 tips to follow to get best results.

  • When using ligther coloured shirts use pastel colours like light blue or yellow or light pink. When you print these light colors on a shirt they are good at close distances but not at distances. So what will you do if these colors were in a logo for instance? You need to make sure the colours in logos can be seen from a distance too. Select well.
  • If you do use lighter colors make sure you use a border with a darker color to high light text so its can be read better.
  • As a simple rule make sure darker colored shirts have lighter color ink to highlight TEXT. Don't use darker colored shirts with dark color inks. Colors may come out distorted and can vary from computer images.

Step 3 - Adding Dimensions To Your Designs

After you selected your image and color you may find the proof a bit flat. One way to give it depth is add another dimension to it by adding a color to the background to brighten the image up.

  • You can use Photoshop, Gimp or InDesign for this purpose to radically change the images.
  • Create a vector outline to resize the image.

 

Step 4 - Adding Balance To Design

This is where you combine all parts of the design to form one whole image. Try making the image as cohesive as possible. This will help draw the eye into the image rather than away from it.

 

Step 5 - The Placement of The Design On The Shirt

This will determine where you place the image. Is it going to be on the pocket or on the collar of the shirt? Is it going to be a wrap around design from front to back?

  • For bands or sports a simple design centered is all you need.
  • You can use the back of shirts to place logos on.

 

Step 6 - Make A Mock Up Before You Print

Its best to create a mock up image on paper before you start doing anything concrete. This will save heartache and money.

 

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