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I am just submitting my designs for first run of production to an overseas manufacturing company. Yay! However, I'm not sure how to get the "look" I want to achieve with my format. I typically do everything in Illustrator C3 - but it appears when I do a search on how to get edges faded out - everyone is doing in Photoshop. Even though I everybody else I've talked to wants vector images for printing - this company wants PSD files...so they must know what they are doing in separating etc...
I am attaching an example of the type of "look" I want to achieve with my designs...can someone give me a clue on how to get my illustrator ai file to do this...and how to export it as a psd file....what I did is export to a psd - but I'm not sure how to work with it to make this look....
Thanks in advance! I'm new to the graphic programs, so be kind....
Re: How do I get my edges to look like this shirt?
okay - come on all you great designers....out of 50 people that looked - no one can help??? I know there are some great graphic people on here - just need a little guidance!
Re: How do I get my edges to look like this shirt?
Patience grasshopper, sheesh.
Are you talking about the way the background fades into the shirt? In illustrator it would be hard. One way might be to make it in photoshop, screen it, and then bring it back into illutrator and trace it.
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Re: How do I get my edges to look like this shirt?
Mister Retro machine wash filters would work. You can bitmap them and use the .tiff file as a vector in Illustrator. It looks like a texture that was feathered around the edges, with an ornate overlay the color of the shirt on top of that texture, a woodgrain texture on top of that, then the foreground artwork and rhinestones on top of that. I try to do everything in Illustrator if possible. I only do seps in photoshop if it needs to be separated for 4 color or simulated process, which this doesn't.
Re: How do I get my edges to look like this shirt?
There are a few ways to do this as a raster or vector file.
Raster Simply use the eraser tool and distress the edges. Create the scroll work for example as black and the background white and nick the edges. Upload the file to Vector Magic and create a vector file. download the vector back into photoshop. Photoshop should open the file no problema. I dont work with photoshop much but its a way to do it in other programs.
Vector A few options here on how this can be done. I have created distressed vector images that you use the combine/cut out tool. What happens is the distressed vector where it intersects the scroll work eliminates that area within both images. Yeah...I know thats about as understandable as the word CHANGE!
I have created vector edges that I use as a cut out tool. The same tech. as mentioned above really but I can just manipulate the edges of the art and not distress the image.
I hope that helps but probably more confusing than anything.
Post a pic of the art and I will try and help.
A quick 2 minute example. Font overlayed with a distressed vector and hit the cut out tool.
How do I get my edges to look like this shirt? 
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