[Redunk Tees.com]

Hello everyone. I am in need of some help. Please bare with me as I am new to all of this.

I am trying to start an online t shirt shop and have some great ideas. Ive decided to go the heat press route, and will probably be using First Edition as my transfer vendor.

Heres my issue:

I am relatively knowledgeable in photoshop. I've created all of my designs in photoshop. When reading the art guidelines for first edition, they are requiring vector graphics only. Illustrator is like a foreign language to me.

How can I get the designs I've created in photoshop put on to heat press transfers so I can turn my designs into t shirts?!

Any help would be much appreciated!

-Joe

 

[delfinfloresca]

Why don't you print them yourself? Have you tried that?

 

[Redunk Tees.com]

no i havent tried that. i think i would rather order from a place that has the experience in creating quality transfers. i just need to find one that will create transfers from my designs from photoshop.


any suggestions?

 

[splathead]

You have several options:

1. Ask First Edition what their charge would be to convert your files to vector.

2. Contract the conversion of your files vector by a company specializing in it. A search here on the forum will provide you with referrals.

3. Try to convert them yourself. Start with this free online service Vector Magic | Precision Bitmap to Vector Conversion Online . They also have a paid version that can be downloaded.

4. Buy illustrator and learn yourself. As you are finding out, you will need to produce vectors from now on.

 

[frankiko]

no i havent tried that. i think i would rather order from a place that has the experience in creating quality transfers. i just need to find one that will create transfers from my designs from photoshop.


any suggestions?

since your designs are in photoshop format already.... you just need to have a sublimation system...(a printer with sublimation ink, a sublimation paper, and a heat press, and t-shirts)...

but if you want other printers to do it for you... and you want it in transfer paper... you just have to give them your photoshop files and they should be able to print it on transfer paper right away and heatpress it on t-shirts.

if they ask it in vector specifically... pro'ly they'll screen print it.

 

[splathead]

since your designs are in photoshop format already.... you just need to have a sublimation system...(a printer with sublimation ink, a sublimation paper, and a heat press, and t-shirts)...

but if you want other printers to do it for you... and you want it in transfer paper... you just have to give them your photoshop files and they should be able to print it on transfer paper right away.

Fellas, these are plastisol transfers he is having made. Not the ones you print on an inkjet/laser printer. As a beginner, he does not want to try those himself. Heck, I wouldn't even try to make them myself.