Making T-shirts

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hood_riderz6

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Alright i wanna start making some shirts and designing them on the computer but i have no idea what program i need or anything like that so any help in this area would be awesome, nothing to expensive though
 
get Photoshop, prefereably CS2 or 3, you can get 2 ripped pretty easily. Then make something, change the image size to 300 dpi (pixles/inch) then send it to a screen printing place
 
Also Adobe Illustrator is good. It's better than Photoshop for drawing an original picture on the computer. If you can download Photoshop you can probably download Illustrator, too.
 
I use fireworks for all my designs. It works fine for my puproses. Its made by Macromedia which is owned by adobe.
 
my designs are simple. I like them that way. If you knew anything you would know that GIMP is jusy as powerful as photoshop, illustrator or corel. If you like to pay money to big corporations for a product you can get for free than go ahead and get photoshop, illustrator or corel. If you like free stuff get GIMP. oh yeah and If you've got such great designs why don't you show them???? Oh Yeah and you might think my shirts suck but thats OK because I've got lots of other people willing to pay me to wear the shirts. You couldn't sport these shirts anyway.

Peace
 
id have to agree with him, you designs pretty much suck a lot, takes no skill to make, its just text, for tree hugging fags to buy, but whatever, its your deal. And GIMP sucks, Adobe is the way to go.
 
have you used GIMP? Why is Adobe better? I've used both and see no reason to pay for Adobe when GIMP is just as good. Can you name one thing Adobe does better than GIMP? Please If you've got an opinion please back it up. I'm waiting......
 
i can tell by your "designs" that you dont even scratch the surface of what photshop can do, no offence, but you wouldnt even understand
 
I found some problems:

At home, I run Linux.

You can just as easily use the Gimp to float text over a Dragonball-Z picture

What great reasons to pirate a grand worth of software!

Gimp will do everything you need it to do and more.

Gimp lacks most of the required commercial features.

Why doesn't the Gimp support RAW?

Gimp sucks

There is no magic.

I'm not a designer.

oh, and you can get photoshop for free also
 
there are things about photoshop you wouldnt understand because the only designs you make are just text. With illustrator (comes with photoshop) you can creeate vector designs which im sure you cant in GIMP, there are a million different ways to save, and so many more things I cant even begin to explain. I think its cool that GIMP is a free GOOD program, but it doesnt even compare to photoshop for the above avarage consumer, aka people who design t-shirts. So sure if you want to come up with a simple design to sell to your friends, do it, but if you plan on making money...learn the real stuff
 
for commercial work, GIMP is a no go. for simple personal work, be it photo correction or dabbling in design, knock yourself out, but all the design firms and departments I've worked for have all used adobe - face it, it's an industry standard, and with good reason.

not to discourage, but clothing isn't an easy task. if you're serious, do a lot of research beforehand - look into the screen-printing process (even if you're not going to actually be printing yourself, a little real world education on the subject goes a long way into understanding how to make separations, etc.), learn how to do channel separations, what the difference between raster and vector is, what resolution to work in (for screen printing, 256dpi is the magic number - anything over that is OK, but it's just overkill), how to call out colors and processes (learning what PANTONE colors are and the different types would be a good start), check out a few sites on color theory and basic design principles.

the big mistake that people make when they design is that they make something that they like without seeking a second opinion, so ultimately they put in all this time and effort into designs that in all actuality suck ass and they wonder why people aren't buying them like hotcakes - just because you slap something on a shirt doesn't necessarily mean people are going to buy it.

my advice? start designing. but with no real goal in mind. learn the basics and build a portfolio. get opinions, not just from your friends and parents, but try and find a group of people who will give you constructive criticism (NS probably isn't the best place - try taking a design class at school where everyone else is roughly on the same plane in terms of ability, you'll find the group to be much more accepting). keep building a portfolio. then after a few months or years, take a select few and mock them up on shirts, and get opinions again from different people. take into consideration the size of the piece, the color of the garment (that's a whole world in and of itself), and maybe look into different processes, such as embroidery, applique, etc.

and for a shameless plug, check out http://www.junk-apparel.com. we've been doing clothing for several years, but it didn't happen overnight. we had to gain industry knowledge and contacts. and we're still just squeaking by.

it's not easy. if you're serious and have a drive, though, by all means go for it.
 
thank you. Me and my brother are getting setup to attempt the same thing you have this summer, but more of a on the side job. youve got some sick designs mang.
 
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