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Hi, I am new here. I am a student as well. I need to design a T shirt for my fellow group member. I discussed with my friend bout the idea. But I need help designing it. What software to use? and is there any template for T shirt where I just insert my design into the template of blank T shirt to design it.
I use photoshop cs2 to make my designs. Most people probally use Adobe Illistrator. It really is going to depend on how you are going to produce your t-shirts. Are you going to have them screenprinted? Heat pressed? Direct print? We will need to know a little more before we can help you out to much.
Do you know how to use any of those programs?
Erm I donno how to print the t-shirt. Cause I planned to design it first. Then I will be looking for some T shirt printing company around my area to get it printed out. Basically, I donno how to use photoshop CS2. But I am interested to learn. Cause I wanted to design the t shirt for my friends and the following group member.
Any suggest type of printing. And we are student and our budget is low.
Photoshop (and most graphic programs) take awhile to learn to use. If you have zero knowledge in using design software, then you might want someone to design it for you. Probally be worth it to get the design you want.
How many shirts do you plan to have printed? Screenprinting is a good choice if you are making a bigger number of shirts. If you just want a few shirts, go with heatpressed.
Sounds like you just want a few shirts for friends. To go as cheap as possible, you can use something like Gimp to edit your design for free, then print it on to heat transfer and apply with an iron (on litght shirts only). As your budget increases, or the number you want increases, so do your options =)
I've heard it's a bit less intuative than Photoshop, but it is free.
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Anyway....can anyone create a blank t-shirt template for me? Then I just add my design onto the template front and back....please anyone??
Why do you need a template? You don't need your design layed out on top of a fake t-shirt for it to be printed. Simply set the resolution/size when designing it to how big you want the print to be when it is printed up. (Generally, you'll want 300dpi, then you can set size based on that.)
But what is the printing method....There are a few of them. Can anyone explain those method to me>?
If you want to know about dye sub check out the dye sub forum, for screenprinting check that, heat press check heat press, etc. - there's lots of information here (including several threads comparing different methods and their relative methods).
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