Hi guys! I need some help.. I want to start making T-Shirts here: https://www.printmighty.co.nz/ and I want my T-Shirts to look similar to these: Days Location Tee | Jay Jays Perfecto Loc Tee | Jay Jays As in the dimensions. What dimensions would they have used for that design? Also, what color mode and resolution would I use? Thanks!
Photoshop Dimensions for T-Shirt Design?
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Hey MJ,
Do a quick Google search of t-shirt templates, this will give you the template to work off of.
The design dimensions will depend on you. When you plan on printing or having your design printed, the design file will have to be made to the specifications you'd like. IE: I want my heart design to be 13 inches in height by 13 inches wide. So your canvas would be 13 x 13, and you would then place your design on it.
We use RGB in Photoshop.
Do a quick Google search of t-shirt templates, this will give you the template to work off of.
The design dimensions will depend on you. When you plan on printing or having your design printed, the design file will have to be made to the specifications you'd like. IE: I want my heart design to be 13 inches in height by 13 inches wide. So your canvas would be 13 x 13, and you would then place your design on it.
We use RGB in Photoshop.
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300dpi @ final size using a transparent background.
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When designing for DtG in Photoshop, I start with the size of the printer platten, 14x18 inches at 150dpi.
After the design is proofed (low res 72dpi .jpg with garment color background), I then crop to within a 1/4 of design, save out as a transparent .png.
Import to the rip and let it do its magic.
NOTE: Threre is NO visible difference between 300dpi vs 150dpi initial design file when it comes to the final print.
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After the design is proofed (low res 72dpi .jpg with garment color background), I then crop to within a 1/4 of design, save out as a transparent .png.
Import to the rip and let it do its magic.
NOTE: Threre is NO visible difference between 300dpi vs 150dpi initial design file when it comes to the final print.
Later...
Real size image, transparent background, 200dpi.
My opinion:
Set the dpi, depend on your design, and your printing machine. I mean if you working with many effect or many "smart object", and you just print it with digital printer, you don't need to use 300dpi.
For complex illustration, I usually using 40x60cm document size with 150 or 200dpi. I always keep all layers to prevent client revision, and usually my file size are around 700Mb-1Gb.
I can't work with 300dpi because I need to work efficient and faster, and if I'm using 300dpi, my pc will gonna blow
And to make a film I usually using 72 or 125 dpi machine, so if I working with 40x60cm 150dpi, I can get 80x120cm 72dpi. More than enough for screen printing right?
*Except for offset printing, I'll work with 300dpi.
Hope that helps (sorry for my grammar ;P)
I never heard anyone who make a screen printing film with offset machine, so we don't need 300dpi
My opinion:
Set the dpi, depend on your design, and your printing machine. I mean if you working with many effect or many "smart object", and you just print it with digital printer, you don't need to use 300dpi.
For complex illustration, I usually using 40x60cm document size with 150 or 200dpi. I always keep all layers to prevent client revision, and usually my file size are around 700Mb-1Gb.
I can't work with 300dpi because I need to work efficient and faster, and if I'm using 300dpi, my pc will gonna blow
And to make a film I usually using 72 or 125 dpi machine, so if I working with 40x60cm 150dpi, I can get 80x120cm 72dpi. More than enough for screen printing right?
*Except for offset printing, I'll work with 300dpi.
Hope that helps (sorry for my grammar ;P)
I agree with you, there's no different between 150 and 300dpi, because to print the screen printing film, we're using digital printing,
I never heard anyone who make a screen printing film with offset machine, so we don't need 300dpi
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