ThinkingMan

I would like to know what the average size of a vector or design image in photoshop/illustrator to fill the chest on a t-shirt would be? I tried creating an image in photoshop at actual size in inches...turned out to be 180mb in size! Is this really how big it has to be?

 

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PixelTwister

Thinking man. I'd say your average full front or full back design would be around 11" wide and maybe 10" high. Don't think that that means you should fill every square inch though. Sometimes more is less. Still, I fall victim to trying to fill the whole thing up.

In photoshop, you can work at 200 dpi and still get good quality on a garment print which will help to keep your file sizes down. Working in RGB mode will also help reduce it. You may already be in RGB tho. Photoshops OK if you're working DTG or simulated process. However, if you're working in Illustrator (or other vector application) you'll have much smaller files to work with, spot color capability and you'll be resolution independent.

 

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e_kalman

I always use 300dpi, and the biggest i go for a logo/design is about 6"x6"/8x8, but is different for everyone, and depends on what kind of result you want to achieve

 

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