Designing t-shirts?

[minibois]

So someone asked me to help him make some t-shirt designs and I would gladly help him, but I need some advice and stuff.

1. What resolution should I work at and what resolution should the final design be?

2. Do I have to use a vector image program or can I use GIMP too?

[XTankSlayerX]

So someone asked me to help him make some t-shirt designs and I would gladly help him, but I need some advice and stuff.

1. What resolution should I work at and what resolution should the final design be?

2. Do I have to use a vector image program or can I use GIMP too?

I'm just going to wing it and say

1. There should be some specs on http://www.designbyhumans.com/dbh101/ That seems like a good bet to me....

2. You don't have to but if your making a logo its best to do so that way you can reuse it in the future.

 

EDIT: also this... :http://justcreative.com/2008/12/04/how-to-prepare-t-shorts-for-printing/

[ThisIsMyWorkAccount]

72DPI should be fine...

no reason to use vectors unless you just want to...

[minibois]

I'm just going to wing it and say

1. There should be some specs on http://www.designbyhumans.com/dbh101/ That seems like a good bet to me....

2. You don't have to but if your making a logo its best to do so that way you can reuse it in the future.

 

EDIT: also this... :http://justcreative.com/2008/12/04/how-to-prepare-t-shorts-for-printing/

Thanks for the links, some good info on there.

I guess I'll not go for vector images and just go with bigger raster images, so I can re use it either way.

[Alpha17x]

So someone asked me to help him make some t-shirt designs and I would gladly help him, but I need some advice and stuff.

1. What resolution should I work at and what resolution should the final design be?

2. Do I have to use a vector image program or can I use GIMP too?

1. It depends on what the image is being used for.

2. To add to 1 and answer 2; In many cases you would want to make it as large as possible for the format the image would be presented in and as vector if possible; but if it's a one off and you're never going to need the image again then just make it large enough that it would look presentable on the front or back of the shirt, It won't need to be scaled up and scaling it down will be easy.

 

In addition; what service are they using to print it; what formats does that company prefer the file to come in,  Do you know what kind of printer they're using? will it be silk screened? Steaming the image on? (It has an actual name but I forgot what it was called; the put the image on a transparency and use steam and pressure to get the image in and it's pretty much permanent regardless of wash cycles.)

 

I don't use gimp so I don't know. Check out Krita it's just as fancy as photoshop and free.

[minibois]

1. It depends on what the image is being used for.

2. To add to 1 and answer 2; In many cases you would want to make it as large as possible for the format the image would be presented in and as vector if possible; but if it's a one off and you're never going to need the image again then just make it large enough that it would look presentable on the front or back of the shirt, It won't need to be scaled up and scaling it down will be easy.

 

In addition; what service are they using to print it; what formats does that company prefer the file to come in,  Do you know what kind of printer they're using? will it be silk screened? Steaming the image on? (It has an actual name but I forgot what it was called; the put the image on a transparency and use steam and pressure to get the image in and it's pretty much permanent regardless of wash cycles.)

 

I don't use gimp so I don't know. Check out Krita it's just as fancy as photoshop and free.

Thanks for the info.

I guess I will just go for a high resolution like 6000x6000 and possibly downscale it to something like 3000x3000 when they will print it.

And I have no idea what kind of shirt printing they will use. I only really talked to someone who was interested in it and I have to still round up the deal and think of some designs.

 

And I'm more than happy with GIMP and not really looking for another program at the moment