is photoshop the best program to use for designing t-shirts?
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is photoshop the best program to use for designing t-shirts?
re: is photoshop the best program to use for designing t-shirts?
It depends on what types of graphics you are looking to do. Adobe PhotoShop is the best for raster graphics. Adobe Illustrator is the best for vector graphics.
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A lot of people prefer the Corel suite of programs. It's really a matter of preference, since both pretty much do the same thing. Try both and see which you like best.
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I agree with others here that Adobe has best products. Adobe Photoshop for images/photo (raster). For vector, I use both Adobe Freehand MX and Illustrator CS3 equally since they both have their own strengths.
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I'm using Illustrator to design my shirts. Have been curious about Coreldraw because I've seen so many posts about it. But I don't see a need to have both. Besides I'm still learning new things every day about Illy, Coreldraw would probably confuse the heck out of me!
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Yes Photoshop and illustrator are the industry standard. Corel is a nice alternative, and used by many smaller shops.
The learning curve is a bit steeper on the Adobe products. and if you are just starting to print apparel, vector (illustrator) is probably going to result in cleaner and easier prints. With photoshop you can do some amazing stuff, but translating to printed apparel will take great skill in separating. A one button sep program won't cut it with advanced stuff.
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Corel for designing & Photoshop for seps for me. You could make great designs with acetate, a pen/brush and an X-acto & some rubylith if ya know what's up. Actually, you SHOULD be able to if you call yourself an artist.
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I'm going to start a thread specially for people who ask these types of questions. They want to know what the best program is to use, which shirts are the best shirts, which machines are best to use, what type of website would be good to use, what's the best way to market yourself etc. etc. etc. and the answer is always the same which is "It depends on what you're doing", but that only makes since to those of us who "KNOW"..... it's not good enough for people in this guy's situation because they don't know enough for it to really benefit them, but then there's nowhere to really start with everything, the lecture will come to me, and I'll post it when it does.
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or you could always use the search function of this forum and find a gazzillion threads. there's no definive answer so posting "another thread" is a waste of time. wait till you read the 'pc or mac' threads, then you'll understand. it's all about what the person has/started with/ feels comfortable using/ has the money for etc. etc etc.
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I know, which always leads us to saying "It all depends on what you're doing"... lol, just trying to touch it from a different angle, it's just a never ending list of variables to consider.
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I'm going to start a thread specially for people who ask these types of questions. They want to know what the best program is to use, which shirts are the best shirts, which machines are best to use, what type of website would be good to use, what's the best way to market yourself etc. etc. etc. and the answer is always the same which is "It depends on what you're doing", but that only makes since to those of us who "KNOW"..... it's not good enough for people in this guy's situation because they don't know enough for it to really benefit them, but then there's nowhere to really start with everything, the lecture will come to me, and I'll post it when it does.
A lot of people that ask "what's the best" questions are really saying "this is all new to me where should I start" Most don't really know much about the business yet and just need a little patience and guidance. Sure we all know better than to post a topic as "what's the best" I never posted this phrase because I sat back and read a lot of threads before posting anything. A lot of newbies find this forum and get a bit over excited at first, and want to know everything all at once. I know I did. Newbies are all here for the same reasons we are here, to learn something new, or to find out a different way of doing things.
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