T-shirt Design: Help please!

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T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:30 pm

Hey guys, I wanted to get a t-shirt like this one http://www.zazzle.com/physics_its_the_s ... 5761800486 but I wanted to modify it a bit, the only problem is I want to add the stickman and that arrow pointing down, is there a way to get the picture? or can one of you make a cool falling stickman for me? like that one?
The thing is I don't want to buy that shirt because I want to have a modified version of it but I can't just press right click and save it, besides, If I take a screenshot I think the picture will be way too small.
Any recommendations?

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by Assaultman67 » Fri Jul 16, 2010 2:49 pm

Like this?

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:04 pm

MAN THANKS!! HOW DID YOU GET THAT!!

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by Assaultman67 » Sat Jul 17, 2010 12:48 am

I just made it ... If you look closely you could probably tell its not an exact copy

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:36 pm

yeah, I could tell from the beginning because of the arrow but, man you really need to teach me to do that kind of stuff

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Sun Jul 18, 2010 6:46 pm

cachiporrin wrote:yeah, I could tell from the beginning because of the arrow but, man you really need to teach me to do that kind of stuff
Edit: do ya think that is big enough for the shirt?

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Post by Freshbite » Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:59 pm

If he made it in Illustrator he can easily resize it and send you a bigger copy, without any loss in quality.

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Post by cachiporrin » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:20 pm

is that software free?

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by Assaultman67 » Mon Jul 19, 2010 1:52 am

cachiporrin wrote:
cachiporrin wrote:yeah, I could tell from the beginning because of the arrow but, man you really need to teach me to do that kind of stuff
Edit: do ya think that is big enough for the shirt?
Damn, I thought it was :? ... 1024 by 1024 seems big to me ...

I guess I could remake it bigger if that isn't large enough ...

I made it in gimp so its not a vector image ... I just used the path tool for most of it ...

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by Freshbite » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:55 am

How big do you need it, cachiporrin?

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Mon Jul 19, 2010 7:57 am

well, ...hmm does T-shirt size tell you anything? I really don't know an exact number.
I want it to look like this one http://www.zazzle.com/physics_its_the_s ... 5761800486

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by Freshbite » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:32 am

So about 25x30cm? (Width x Height)
According to Photoshop, that is 709x850 pixels.

I think you'll do just fine with the image that Assaultman67 provided.

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:21 pm

hey thanks! I might try that

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by Endoperez » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:46 am

Freshbite wrote:So about 25x30cm? (Width x Height)
According to Photoshop, that is 709x850 pixels.

I think you'll do just fine with the image that Assaultman67 provided.

Zazzle example images at http://www.zazzle.com/mk/custom/guidefiles give the example horizontal t-shirt image size as 2100 x 1800 pixels, which is 14 by 12 inches when printed at 150 DPI.

That doesn't necessarily mean that it won't look good. Since it's a monochromatic image, if it's scaled up it's only apparent on the edges, which will appear aliased, but the scaling method might be enough to minimize that. However, I'm not sure if you can choose to scale it up in the printing place, or if that should be done before sending the image for them.
Also, it might be better to make sure that the DPI of the image is set at 150. I don't know how the printing system handles it, but in the worst case it scales the image resolution too when it changes the DPI.

If you didn't get that, printing a picture takes two values, actually. You need the pixel aspect ratio, AND the DPI size. A 1200x1200 pixel image will be 12x12 inches on DPI 100, 4x4 inches on DPI 300 and so on. If the DPI is too low, the image will be grainy. Basically a print at 72 DPI is somewhat grainy but works fine for text, DPI at 300 works fine for images you print yourself, but magazines and other professional prints come in at much higher. DPI doesn't affect the image at all, just how printers print it.

DPI explained:
http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html

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Re: T-shirt Design: Help please!

Post by cachiporrin » Mon Aug 02, 2010 4:54 pm

guys, I chose the final designs for my project, can you help me resize them? I want the same designs as shown in the following links, thank you, can you teach me how to resize them with illustrator?
http://www.zazzle.com/i_love_science_ts ... 9096606592
http://www.zazzle.com/physics_its_the_s ... 5761800486
http://www.zazzle.com/schrodingers_cat_ ... 4057192645
http://www.zazzle.com/and_god_said_maxw ... 0699537542

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