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Templates are a handy resource for any apparel designer to mockup your awesome tee design and show it off in all its glory.
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If you can afford to spend the extra buck, these GoMedia templates are the best you can get. I suggest spending the money if the photos will be used in a catalog.
I was looking at getting some photorealistic t-shirt templates to put my designs on, but after searching on these forums...the good ones I can't afford (yet) and the free ones don't seem to have good enough variation in terms of colours. I'll probably just take photos of the actual designs when I get them printed.
Is there a way to take, say, a blank white (free) tee template and change the colour in photoshop but still have it look real. I'm not great with photoshop but would like to know if that's a viable option. This would give me the variation I need.
Is there a way to take, say, a blank white (free) tee template and change the color in photoshop but still have it look real.
In photoshop open the t-shirt template , select just the t-shirt.....then make a copy of the layer(so you still have the original to work with in case you make a mistake)...to make a copy ..with the selection still active goto layer - new layer via copy.
now in the layer palette there should be the original layer and the new layer with just the t-shirt that you selected earlier.then goto the layer style and put a color overlay on the t-shirt and set the layer blending mode to multiply.that should do it.
if it is to confusing to you..I have some real nice shirt templates...tell me what color you want and Ill send it over via email.
I was looking at getting some photorealistic t-shirt templates to put my designs on, but after searching on these forums...the good ones I can't afford (yet) and the free ones don't seem to have good enough variation in terms of colours. I'll probably just take photos of the actual designs when I get them printed.
Is there a way to take, say, a blank white (free) tee template and change the colour in photoshop but still have it look real. I'm not great with photoshop but would like to know if that's a viable option. This would give me the variation I need.
Nigel,
Yes, there is a way, but you'd have to figure out how to use the option.
(I purposely searched for "Changing" instead of the actual process name of "Selective Color" because there was a lot of misnamed videos using that)
Usually, I'd use either the Hue/Saturation, or the Selective Color option in the Layers Palette, that is the norm, I'd think.
There are other ways, but these I think, are easiest to do, and use.
YouTube has almost any video you can imagine on almost any subject nowadays, so using the Search option there, try searching for other ways to do it if these don't work for you.
I will say, a black shirt with white type, or a white shirt with black type works best in these, if a black shirt and orange type is used for instance, you can also change that to another color too.
A shirt with two colors printed on it will be slightly harder though, and a selection will be needed, but if you don't do it perfectly, you could make it look fake, and a fake looking shirt doesn't sell near as well.
Look at the videos and see for yourself, now people on YouTube don't always use the proper terminology when posting videos, so you'll get stuff that isn't what you want, so keep that in mind.
The templates above are pretty much what I need. I'll try following the instructions you guys have suggested so I'll be able to do it myself...can't be too hard right?
I tried out the templates and it worked. Really easy to change the colours. I'm now working on putting the designs on the templates to make the look realistic.
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