Bodanski

Hello,
This is my first post on these forums and after reading a lot on here I know it definitely won't be my last. I have been browsing around and didn't see anything related to what I was looking for so I thought I would ask.

We work with multiple different clients and setting up new designs for them frequently. The problem I am running into though is setting up the templates for design proofing. Is there a program that works with Photoshop/Illustrator to where I can design a graphic and have them appear on a shirt for proofing? Is there a way to do multiple per page? That also works in real time with these programs? I would like to keep all designs separate and have these automatically update every time I make any edits or changes. Usually I work with 20 designs a week for each client, dealing with changes and adding new things can become a complete mess. I was thinking about setting up booklets in InDesign so every run we have we will be able to have a booklet of all of the newest designs. One for the clients and one for our printers. Right now I am setting these up in PS and it is becoming a huge time consumption which I hopefully can avoid.
If anyone could help I would greatly appreciate it. Hopefully this didn't confuse anyone, I'm running on 3 hours sleep and Trident Gum

 

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RJM

You can design a web page with Tshirt templates as background jpgs with transparent Gifs on top. Just throw in the appropriate Gifs and they will pop up on top of the T-shirts.

 

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Bodanski

Thanks for the feedback, I actually was thinking about doing something along those lines. Instead I took the easy way out and just developed something to take everything I designed and organize psd's for web viewing with comments and so forth. I figured this would be best so the clients can just write how they feel and it saves some time on my end taking notes, plus making the source files accessible to other designers.

Is there an industry standard for something like this?

 

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shirtguy33

If you're not opposed to using corel there is a add-on to cdx4 that places your graphic automatically onto all different types of products, tshirts, signs, mugs, etc.

 

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maiasaura

Adobe Version Cue to manage sets of designs and revisions across a network. Displaying them against a tshirt background could be tricky if the scale varies, but you can use the print function in Photoshop to quickly display/print multiple images on a page.

 

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ggraphics

Tom (Advanced Artist) at one time had a free tutorial on his site that shows you how to create a comp generator. Pretty cool. You create the graphic, click the comp icon that you create from the tutorial. Then it asks you what location. Click that and bang! It puts it in the correct location at the proper size.

Edit: I decided not to be lazy, so I went and found it. Here you go. http://www.advancedartist.com/video/compgen.html
BTW, I think this may be for corel only.

 

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