Revealed! Tips For Designing Custom Shirts

Customized t-shirts are seen just about everywhere these days from the Runways of

Paris and Milan to college campuses and from charity events to marathons everybody is wearing custom t-shirts These garments are popular because they present a easy way to get your message to people, advertise your products or services or simply build brand awareness; you could also war them to show your affiliation with a club, school, college or even a political party. There are three ways to create custom t-shirts, you can either use hand drawn designs which will have to be uploaded to the custom tee-shirt printing websites or you could use their ready made designs and finally, you could use a graphics designing tool to create your design which then simply be sent to the site and you should have your t-shirt in a few days flat. So let's talk more about these options.

To design your very own custom t-shirts you will need access to a computer with a graphics software, drawing paper, scanner, pencil, coloring pens, ruler, eraser and markers.

To begin with, you will need to plan your design, for instance you will need to have clear idea about what you want to see on your custom t-shirts, will it just be a picture or a design or will there also be words in the theme? If you plan on putting words in there, start by penning down a few phrases. You could also look online for some impressive quotes and slogans that work well on custom t-shirts. The next step is to gather any photographs or illustrations that you want to be printed on the t-shirt.

These photographs and /or illustration can be online or on paper. If you have them on paper, you will need to scan them so that they can be uploaded to the site. The words can also be added by hand to design. Use a pencil and some paper to make simple sketch of the design; this is not the final version; just a quick sketch that will tell where everything should go. Try to play around with the position of the words in reference to the image till you find the perfect combination. You can put them in an arc to the right or the left of the image or even on top or below the picture; whatever suits your taste. You should also try experimenting with words and images in various sizes; sometimes an oval or circular shape looks the best on t-shirts depending on your body type. The important thing to remember while designing a custom t-shirts is that the over all appearance of the t-shirt should be pleasing and it should get your message across. The sketch will help you in executing the design.

Open the graphics designing tool and start with a new file, name it and save the file. Many accomplished t-shirt designers use Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop to design their aster pieces; however, you ca also get things done in Microsoft Paint or Word. Now the first thing that you need to set is the dimension of the deign as you would like t to appear on the t-shirt or scale it down in proportion; then you need to add the pictures, photographs and illustrations to the design space; you can also use clip art many graphic programs have several clip art images that can be used for the job. Alternatively, you could also use a photograph from a digital camera or a scanned illustration from a magazine. Ideally, go for an image of 200 to 300 pixels per inch; the higher the resolution, the better will be the final effect on the custom t-shirts.

Use the features in the graphics software to place the words in the design space; you can also import files and resize them with the help of these designing programs; once again, us a variety of image sizes, fonts and colors to find the perfect combination. Save the design if you are happy with the final work. Now you an either print the design on your own with the help of some heat transfer paper and an inkjet printer or if you are looking for a more durable option then head over to a website that offers printing services, upload your design and you should get your t-shirt at your doorsteps in a matter of few days.

by: Seomul Evans

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