[Austinrnewton]

Hey Guys,
I've been a floater recently around here just taking in a lot of stuff, but not asking any questions. I came up with this idea yesterday, and I thought I would draw it up on Photoshop so I could see what y'all think.

The plan for the design is to be on white t shirts and white tank-tops. Stretched up and down to take up almost the entire front.

So tell me, is this boring? Does it need more Color? Etc.

 

[Ripcord]

Lots of simple designs sell well. For this one, I might modify the type a little (would probably be easier with vectors) to reduce the effect of the stretching on the horizontal strokes. The attached example is a little rough...It's just to show what I was thinking.

 

[Austinrnewton]

So what you are saying is change the font up on the stretched part? Or is their another way around this.

 

[Ripcord]

So what you are saying is change the font up on the stretched part? Or is their another way around this.

Well when you stretch a font (or anything) it distorts the height/ width ratio. So when it's extremely distorted vertically as in this case, the horizontal strokes of the fonts become much thicker than the verticals. To fix that and make it look more natural, convert the font to curves (Corel Draw) or outlines (Adobe Illustrator) and manipulate it to get it more uniform.

 

[NoXid]

Sort of a label for the rapture, just so we sinners will know that the people who used to be in those empty shirts on the ground are now with Jesus?

As stated above, simple is often better, so no problem with that. I would do it in a vector program so the font can be tweaked (PhotoShop is named PHOTO shop for a reason; it really isn't the best type of program for this sort of thing).

Are you familiar with how discharge ink works? If not, search on here for info. With discharge ink you could ad some interest to design by inversing the design, so the words are the color of the shirt and the box around the words is a solid block of ink (you wouldn't want to do that with Plastisol because it would result in a large, heavy, stiff blob of ink across most of the shirt). So start with a black shirt and print/discharge a white block with the letters in black (still just the shirts color). Or whatever shirt color, but some colors/shirts discharge well and others don't, so check that out first.