Which print method will you be using to produce the shirts?
about to purchase photoshop or illustrator
Ok so my first couple of designs are going to be things that I designed but I also want to make shirts that are photogrtaphic images mixed with artwork what should I be looking to buy? I understand illustrator has vectoring, but if I go photoshop can I still do basic designs, I can't afford both at the moment. Also I want cut a portion of an image out of a photo and plant it in a designed background which program is best for that?
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I think you can vector with both softwares.If you are going to be using photographs and art together and using alot of colors then I would go photoshop and dtg the garment.Most designers use bothprograms,start in one program then send file to other to touch up.Both are great programs.go to you tube and look at tutorials to see what you can do with each ,this might help you decide.let us know what you choose and why you made your choice!Good luck,Eric
The Corel suite has both a vector and a raster programme, why not try that.
In your situation I say get photoshop, it has a pen tool in there for making vector shapes and you can save them as custom shapes. Illustrator does have a LOT of advantages, like having the line work come up instantly with the vector allowing you to change thickness and color at will, even the shape, while photoshop you have to stroke the path. Photoshop allows you to color, while illustrator is pretty much all solid stuff, you can't get as detailed with it. To sum it up.... photoshop is for creating artwork in a manner of painting a detailed image or manipulating photos like cropping people out. Illustrator is more for when you got all the peices and you want to put them together and do quick illustrations. A lot of cartoon artists use illustrator to do their line work and bounce it to photoshop to color it. So I say get photoshop, it allows you to do the same thing you can do in illustrator, it's just not set up to be as quick and easy with it, but it's not ridiculous, illustrator doesn't allow you to really color like you could in photoshop, so I think you would be better off starting with PS first.
For screen print work, if you could only have 1 program, then that program should be Photoshop. The reason is simple. Photoshop covers a great amount of what Illustrator can do, but Illustrator only barely touches on what Photoshop does. The thing is, you need to have good skill with Photoshop to use it as a "replacement" for Illustrator. Obviously, it doesn't cover 'everything' that Illustrator does, but Photoshop will take you farther than any other single application. It can separate anything, including Illustrator files. Illustrator can't do the same with Photoshop files. Photoshop can create text for screen printing with quality equal to what Illustrator can do, it's just a matter of resolution. And you can design incredible art which would be impossible to do in Illustrator or other vector applications.Ok so my first couple of designs are going to be things that I designed but I also want to make shirts that are photogrtaphic images mixed with artwork what should I be looking to buy? I understand illustrator has vectoring, but if I go photoshop can I still do basic designs, I can't afford both at the moment. Also I want cut a portion of an image out of a photo and plant it in a designed background which program is best for that?
Hi Jon,
Yeah that was going to be my next thread, based on the fact I'm going to be doing regular art designs and photo images would I be switching between silkscreen and DTG or is their one I can stick with that does both?
Yeah that was going to be my next thread, based on the fact I'm going to be doing regular art designs and photo images would I be switching between silkscreen and DTG or is their one I can stick with that does both?
This is spot on.For screen print work, if you could only have 1 program, then that program should be Photoshop. The reason is simple. Photoshop covers a great amount of what Illustrator can do, but Illustrator only barely touches on what Photoshop does. The thing is, you need to have good skill with Photoshop to use it as a "replacement" for Illustrator. Obviously, it doesn't cover 'everything' that Illustrator does, but Photoshop will take you farther than any other single application. It can separate anything, including Illustrator files. Illustrator can't do the same with Photoshop files. Photoshop can create text for screen printing with quality equal to what Illustrator can do, it's just a matter of resolution. And you can design incredible art which would be impossible to do in Illustrator or other vector applications.
I use both Illi and PS, but if you are just starting and price is important, why not try Gimp and Inkscape? They are both free and have tutorials available. I started with Photoshop 3.0 and have progressed with each new version, but the thought of just jumping into it with no history with it is a little scary. There is quite a learning curve before you achieve what you want on screen and getting it to print that way too. Why not download and try out the free ones first and get the feel for it.
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