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I'd like to give customers a better look at what the design looks like on light steel (Hane's version of heather gray effectively). Does anyone have a pattern?

The one I used from S&S does not turn into a nice pattern... it looks horrible.

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Fluid

why not scan in a shirt reduce the bitmap and create your own pattern from the scan? Just a thought. If i had one I would share.

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guest5779

Quote: Originally Posted by Fluid why not scan in a shirt reduce the bitmap and create your own pattern from the scan? Just a thought. If i had one I would share.

Not a bad idea, but I'm hoping someone has one already.

But that's always a backup idea I suppose.

 

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guest5779

If I were to just use a solid gray background, how should I easily denote that it'll have an "checkered" style pattern? Any ideas?

 

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AddVenture

if you can get a hold of a hanes fabric swatch book, they have a pms color match for every color t-shirt they offer...except the heather colors. it's a good tool to have, though.

try making a gray background in PS and adding a pattern overlay. maybe you can create the texture yourself.

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Quote: Originally Posted by AddVenture if you can get a hold of a hanes fabric swatch book, they have a pms color match for every color t-shirt they offer...except the heather colors. it's a good tool to have, though. try making a gray background in PS and adding a pattern overlay. maybe you can create the texture yourself.

Sadly that's what I've tried -- with horrible results.

 

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Fluid

Clients will just have to picture it in their heads. Ill see if I can create a pattern that will work as a simulated ash shirt.

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Quote: Originally Posted by Fluid Clients will just have to picture it in their heads. Ill see if I can create a pattern that will work as a simulated ash shirt.

I'd appreciate it. I've been unable to come up with anything that looked, well, professional.

 

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Fluid

see if these will work for ya.
http://www.yourimagehost.com/is.php?...ashtexture.jpg
I have the files saved as jpeg, in a zip archive. Too large to post here.

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Fuzz

if you are using Photoshop... open a new document with the mode set to Greyscale. Fill with the shade of grey you want. Goto Render>Noise>add noise. Then goto Filter>Blur>motion blur. That should give you a decent heathered looking texture.

You will probably want to play with the noise and motion blur sliders to get it the way you want it.

 

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prometheus

Is this what you are looking for? This was taken from a shirt and created as a seamless texture.

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Fuzz

I just tried using grey as my foreground and white as my background color. went to Filter>Render>Fibers.......Set the Variance all the way to the right and the strength all the way to the left and that seemed to make a good texture also.

 

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Quote: Originally Posted by Fluid see if these will work for ya. http://www.yourimagehost.com/is.php?...ashtexture.jpg I have the files saved as jpeg, in a zip archive. Too large to post here.

That's it. You have a PM!

Thanks everyone!

 

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