tee designing?

[Guest dontcaretoomuchforcrap]

a lot of the tees you see are simple stuff done on photoshop or illustrator. text is no problem, biting is easy.

but can anyone tell me how designs like this are done? obviously, its a lot more work, with layering, 3d-ness, multiple colors, etc?

and printing is done a different way?

[TragicBliss]

Pretty much any photo-ish image can be screened if it's CMYK.

http://www.tragicbliss.com

[andewhall]

"Color separations are used by major printing companies to reproduce the color images inside magazines, books, brochures, etc. Typical color separations consist of four colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, or CMYK for short. However, large printing companies may use more if a particular color needs to be exact, such as a company color. By printing these four colors, one top of each other, one can create the illusion of a full-color photograph, when in reality, only four colors are shown.

Color separations used to be performed in the darkroom, using expensive and tedious processes. Today, with the technology of computers, scanners, laser printers, and Adobe PhotoShop, one can create a CMYK separation with relatively little time spent in the darkroom, compared to a few years ago"

[Guest]

For fabric it's a little different, it's still a 4 color process but sometimes a spot color would be swapped in or added. Because the screen print for clothing requites a different dot gain, the color results from using just CMYK would sometimes not yield as good of a result as using say cyan yellow black + one spot color.

Just send the image for the printers and their production artists will do the rest for you. They'll have some basic guide lines. But from your image to the finished product the printers will go through a ton of steps to produce a shirt like that Supreme shirt. So you don't have to worry too much about color separations and all that stuff.

I did graphic production work for a clothing company for three years. We had everything in house, we would do the production work, trap the file, we have an image setter that did the color separations, we would image our own film, the printers will burn the screens and get a strike off, from the printers in one day if we wanted to. I had to work with so many crap files in the past.

[vinz]

For fabric it's a little different, it's still a 4 color process but sometimes a spot color would be swapped in or added. Because the screen print for clothing requites a different dot gain, the color results from using just CMYK would sometimes not yield as good of a result as using say cyan yellow black + one spot color.

Just send the image for the printers and their production artists will do the rest for you. They'll have some basic guide lines. But from your image to the finished product the printers will go through a ton of steps to produce a shirt like that Supreme shirt. So you don't have to worry too much about color separations and all that stuff.

I did graphic production work for a clothing company for three years. We had everything in house, we would do the production work, trap the file, we have an image setter that did the color separations, we would image our own film, the printers will burn the screens and get a strike off, from the printers in one day if we wanted to. I had to work with so many crap files in the past.

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[frogeyes]

I used to work for a place that prints for supreme and a shirt like that would def use the 4 color process, but up to 7 spot colors would be added to make the images look more photo-real, so an 11 color process just for the front image was not unheard of.

[powerglov]

Quote: what I'm more interested in though, is how the image was designed?

Are you serious? Like you said most likely some Photoshop or Illustrator was used .. as well as maybe .. some work by hand!

[vinz]

You can pretty much use illustrator along with photoshop or just with photoshop itself. The best way to do it to make production easier is to do the white text in illustrator then work on the belt image in photoshop. The image of the belt was probably something the grabbed off the net or scanned. All they had to do was to make some changes in photoshop. After you are done with the belt image you can link it to the illustrator file and clip it. This way if the printers need to do color corrections it's much faster cause all they have to do is to work with the channels in photoshop to adjust the belt image. When you send the image to the printer you'll have to send it with the .ai file along with the .ps file. There are many ways of designing the shirt but this was the way I would use to ensure that I get the best resolution and color out of the shirt.

www.youngestincharge.com

www.opticalweapons.com

[andewhall]

Excellent Vinz, good info. Those 10-11 screen spot colour set-ups must cost loads huh. How many screens do an average carosel (<spelt wrong) hold? Years ago I did some 9 block colour prints, it was mighty expensive.

[Selegna]

HALFTONES...

HOPE YOU GET IT LATER...

[Selegna]

IT WAS DRAWN BY HAND, CLEANED UP AND COLOR SEPRATED IN ADOBE, PRINTED BY SOME PRO$..

HOPE YOU GET IT LATER...

[frogeyes]

nowadays, there's a lot of heat transfer work going on. it's cheaper, you don't have to commit the graphics to shirts that may or may not sell amd you can make them to order, plus they are easier to print at the factory.

[Stuffed Tongues]

..and they get that cool "vintage" look after a few washes....

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