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I've gone through the tutorial in CafePress but I'm still having a hard time uploading simple white text for a dark shirt. I exported file as a corel photopaint file, went into photopaint and saved as a PNG with a transparent background. i uploaded it into CafePress but I still don't get a good file to use. Actually, I'm not sure why I need to take it to Photo Paint since you can save it as a PNG file in Corel Draw. If I want white type, how do I have the color as white but still see the image.
It will be hard to see the image with white text and a transparent background (usually shown as a gray/white grid in graphics programs).
You can just design the shirt in corel draw.
Set the page background to black. Design the text as white.
Export as a PNG with tranparency and make the black background the transparent color and you can skip the photopaint step.
Just upload that transparent PNG that you export from CorelDraw.
Let me know if that helps
I did this and it still showed a black rectangle around the type when I added the design to the shirt in CafePress. I'm not sure if this is normal for the display, and when the shirt prints it does not pick up the other black. When my design is in the media basket with all my designs it shows the black rectangle with the white type. If this is normal, then it worked and I'll keep doing it. I thought it was odd when the instructions said you had to save it to photoshop or paint, then save it as a PNG, when Corel allows you to export as a PNG.
Ok, I just checked my image basket at CafePress and yes, the design should have a black background with white text when you look at it in your image basket (I'm sure they do this so you can see your white text)
Here's a quickie screenshot of what else you should see under the image for it to work correctly on all the dark garments cafepress offers (black, green, red, navy).
If you don't see the transparency boxes underneath your image in your cafepress image basket, that means it wasn't uploaded as a transparent image and you may have missed a step in CorelDraw when converting it to a transparent image.
Anyone doing dark shirts on CafePress. I'm uploading some designs with a transparent background but I still see a black around the white type when I place them on a shirt. I'm using white type. Is this normal?
I also think there is a tab when setting up your page layout in Corel about printing and or exporting your background. You might want to uncheck it as well.
upload design for dark shirts 
