When I first started out, I was printing only on White and Ash colored shirts... now I am branching out to other colors and finding it to be a bit of a challenge.
You see... since ImageClip is not opaque, you get color shifting once the image is pressed on a shirt.
For example, I created a design that had a purple octopus on a big swirl of blue... when I pressed it on a canary yellow shirt, it suddenly turned into a brownish octopus on a very green swirl!
To deal with this, I purchased one of each of the t-shirt colors I feel that I can print on (light colored shirts).. and printed a "test pattern" on each one.
Now I can see exactly what the "end result" color will be on a particular color shirt.
I am also trying to design my transfers for a particular color shirt... instead of simply creating colors that look good on my computer, then putting them on "any" color shirt and hoping they still look good.
When working with clients, I simply have them pick out a shirt color, show them a sample with the colors already on the shirt... let them choose the colors they want to use... mark the colors on a paper copy of my color chart... then bring up my color chart in Xara and use that as a guide when designing or modifying the shirt graphic.
That way, the color the client sees on the sample shirt, is the color that ends up on the final product...
I am trying to refine it even further by printing "suggested colors" on the back of my sample shirts, which will be the ones that I feel stand out the best on that color of shirt.
So... if I am trying to have a purple octopus on a blue swirl on a canary yellow shirt... the colors I actually use on the graphic will have to have most of their yellow removed... so when printed on a yellow shirt... the graphic color + the shirt color will result in the correct color showing up.
Brett
ImageClip Color Challenges 
MAD Scientist JR. AKA MS2
