Looking for program to develop/design t-shirts- is Photoshop best?

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Hello.
I am looking for a program that I can use to develop/design t-shirts. Can someone recommend an excellent program that would be useful? I have heard that Photoshop would be very helpful.
I am planning on designing t-shirts to be sent out to be screen printed. Looking for best software.
Thanks!
KOS

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Kingdom
May 18, 2005
"KOS" wrote in news:1116373012.149424.152720
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Hello.
I am looking for a program that I can use to develop/design t-shirts. Can someone recommend an excellent program that would be useful? I have heard that Photoshop would be very helpful.
I am planning on designing t-shirts to be sent out to be screen printed. Looking for best software.
Thanks!
KOS

Photoshop is primarily for photographic images

Coral draw is primarily for vector or flat areas of colour

Illustrator is for creating illistrations and logos

These programs are huge and take a considerable amount of time to learn how to use properly. You might be better with a light weight graphics package.

http://www.gimp.org/ is highly rated, free and open source.


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Tacit
May 18, 2005
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"KOS" wrote:

I am looking for a program that I can use to develop/design t-shirts. Can someone recommend an excellent program that would be useful? I have heard that Photoshop would be very helpful.

It would help if you could describe what kinds of designs you’re talking about. Line art? Text? Photographic images? One color? Two color? Full color?


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Hecate
May 18, 2005
On 17 May 2005 16:36:52 -0700, "KOS"
wrote:

Hello.
I am looking for a program that I can use to develop/design t-shirts. Can someone recommend an excellent program that would be useful? I have heard that Photoshop would be very helpful.
I am planning on designing t-shirts to be sent out to be screen printed. Looking for best software.
Thanks!
KOS

Depends what sort of designs you’re putting on the t-shirts. But if you really mean designs rather than photos, then you should be looking at Illustrator, Freehand or Corel Draw.



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KOS
May 18, 2005
Thanks everyone for your prompt response.

I would be interested to take photos and put them on t-shirts, also to create graphics, animals etc.. Sure, there will be colors. not just black and white.

I realize that these programs are quite complex, but what would be the ‘best’ to do t-shirts? I will have the shirts sent out to a screener. I have not used any of these programs before, so I am a beginner. Thanks again
KOS
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Tacit
May 19, 2005
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"KOS" wrote:

I would be interested to take photos and put them on t-shirts, also to create graphics, animals etc.. Sure, there will be colors. not just black and white.

If you waqnt to take full-color photographs and screen print them, you have a steep learning curve ahead of you; you’ll need to learn about working in CMYK, about halftoning, and so on. For this kind of work, Photoshop is your best bet, though there’s more to it than just taking a picture and handing it to a screen printer.


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Odysseus
May 19, 2005
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Hecate wrote:

On 17 May 2005 16:36:52 -0700, "KOS"
wrote:
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I am planning on designing t-shirts to be sent out to be screen printed. Looking for best software.

Depends what sort of designs you’re putting on the t-shirts. But if you really mean designs rather than photos, then you should be looking at Illustrator, Freehand or Corel Draw.

Yes; considering the extremely coarse halftones used by most silkscreeners, it’s especially advantageous to be able to use vector artwork for all non-photographic elements. Photos can be manipulated in Photoshop and then placed in an illustration program to be combined with type and so on. If working with spot colour, while Photoshop has some capabilities in this area it can be very awkward, especially for a beginner who isn’t already familiar with channels.


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Hecate
May 19, 2005
On 18 May 2005 14:53:03 -0700, "KOS"
wrote:

Thanks everyone for your prompt response.

I would be interested to take photos and put them on t-shirts, also to create graphics, animals etc.. Sure, there will be colors. not just black and white.

I realize that these programs are quite complex, but what would be the ‘best’ to do t-shirts? I will have the shirts sent out to a screener. I have not used any of these programs before, so I am a beginner. Thanks again
KOS

Then you need Photoshop to deal with the photos and Illustrator etc to deal with the drawings/text. Neither will be best for the job as a whole – PS doesn’t do vectors well, and Illy doesn’t do
photos…almost at all 😉



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fdrawremove
May 20, 2005
KOS,
Try this: http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/

"KOS" wrote in message
Hello.
I am looking for a program that I can use to develop/design t-shirts. Can someone recommend an excellent program that would be useful? I have heard that Photoshop would be very helpful.
I am planning on designing t-shirts to be sent out to be screen printed. Looking for best software.
Thanks!
KOS

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