thanks to subscriber requests today I'm going to show you how to set up a custom
t shirt design in Photoshop print ready each and every single time
welcome back to satori graphics everybody home of graphic design content I hope
you day is chill and all good. thanks to a subscriber I'm bringing to you today a
quick tutorial on how to set up a person t shirt design in Photoshop you may have
some really cool designs or you want to transfer them onto t-shirts here's what
you need to do there are four main things to keep in mind when designing a
custom t shirt design firstly the dimensions of your design
then you need to make sure resolutions on points the third thing to keep in
mind is the color mode of your design finally the colors themselves I will
explain each point now as well as a bonus tip at the very end before however
it is important to keep in mind how you want to be print to teach a design if
you use an online service such as Spreadshirt or design by humans are
going to have downloadable PSD templates which will have your color melody
dimensions and resolution already set up for you but I'm going to show you how to
set up a t-shirt design manually without social services
imagine t shirt design is somebody's torso the smallest dimensions I want to
use are going to be around 12 inches by 14 inches of course all over t-shirt
designs you want to have comma date for that and use 12 or 14 of the smallest
measurements and increase the size if need be you must be using a 300 PPI
resolution for your t-shirt designs this will ensure a high quality crisp and
clean printing seeing as we're looking at printing you want to use a CMYK color
mode for your custom t-shirt designs
writing colors if you use a digital laser printer you can get away with
having gradients on your design but it is a smart idea especially for screen
printing how do you design in block colors I'm not blending the gradients as
you can see here I've set up my t-shirt design so there's some block colors with
no gradients so if you are screen printing your t-shirts you should not
use gradients however give a design that has gradients you have to forget about
printing it right well you can make a slight adjustment upload it to
Illustrator and then open up the image trace window use the ignore one option
here so ignore the background if you have one and then select the color
option so let's a few colors as possible while still having your design look good
and then click preview it may take a while for it to preview
I've spent a few more colors here and I have to go to object image trace and
then expand
now your design is employed colors and also a vector you can then transfer it
to photoshop and then onto a t-shirt from there on the topic of t-shirts I
wash the tea schaible from a very own store and it came out just great it
doesn't cut our stuck-on but as i'm is printed directly into the fabric the
specific design is no longer my store however there are many cool designs as
well as artistic prints so if you want to help out my channel check it out in
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