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I'm relatively new at graphic and T-shirt designing and even though I know the basics of Photoshop and Illustrator I can't do some of the more difficult things like halftones. When I finish a design it doesn't come out the quality I wanted it to and I get kinda discouraged. So any of you pros have any tips or videos or advice?

Thanks ,
FyreFalkon

fyrefalkon wrote:I'm relatively new at graphic and T-shirt designing and even though I know the basics of Photoshop and Illustrator I can't do some of the more difficult things like halftones. When I finish a design it doesn't come out the quality I wanted it to and I get kinda discouraged. So any of you pros have any tips or videos or advice?

Thanks ,
FyreFalkon

Yeah, I would also like to know how some of the shirts in the derby are printed on what look like real shirts as opposed to the provided templates.

Lots of tutorials in this thread: Tutorials

geekfactor12 wrote:Lots of tutorials in this thread: Tutorials

Thanks

I'm a paint artist and know a bit about photoshop. Is it within the rules to scan my finished piece and use it in Photoshop to submit my design? Thanks!

veravanwhoop wrote:I'm a paint artist and know a bit about photoshop. Is it within the rules to scan my finished piece and use it in Photoshop to submit my design? Thanks!

yes, but watch out for gradients/too many colours. woot will reject if they can't print it with six or fewer spot ink colours and one shirt colour.

veravanwhoop wrote:I'm a paint artist and know a bit about photoshop. Is it within the rules to scan my finished piece and use it in Photoshop to submit my design? Thanks!

That should be fine. The tricky part will be separating the scanned image into no more than six Pantone colors and changing all gradients to halftones. Depending on the type of painting that you do, I can see this taking a considerable amount of time.