New T-Shirt Designs from Great Dane Graphics for 2012
Dec/111
It’s been said many times in the decorated apparel industry that the design is what sells the shirt. Great artwork with a theme or genre that is current and popular can’t be kept on the shelves, but dated artwork that looks like the same old thing can’t be sold except as a clearance item.
For this reason, the success of any decorated apparel shop depends on offering great, cutting-edge artwork. And one of the best things about Transfer Express is that we offer a comprehensive library of new and traditional designs that gets updated and expanded all year long. No matter what graphics your customers are requesting, we will have them in some form or fashion.
We are excited to announce that we’ve teamed up with Dane Clement of Great Dane Graphics and are releasing new fresh customizable designs over the next few weeks. Be on the lookout. We will be releasing a few designs at a time. Here’s a sneak preview of what you can expect.
New Layout QTS-55
Customized New Layout QTS-55
How to Prep Your Own Artwork for CAD-PRINTZ Printing
May/110
RGB Vs. CMYK Color Mode:
We make it easy for our customers by providing all the artwork you could ever imagine with Easy Prints® layouts and clipart, which the selection continues to grow each year. However, sometimes your customers provide their own artwork or maybe you have come up with some very nice artwork yourself. In these cases, one of the most common questions that re-occur has to do with the color mode of the artwork files. The color mode of your artwork file is basically the colors that your artwork is rendered in its end use. To determine which color mode you want, you must know your end use for the artwork. There are various color modes, while RGB and CMYK are the most common.
RGB (standing for Red, Green, Blue) is a color mode used by computer monitors, televisions, and any sort of electronic screen. All of the colors you see on the screen are actually made up of various combinations of tiny red, green and blue “boxes” known as pixels. This is also the color mode used by all internet graphics. If you are making any artwork for the web or any other project that will be viewed on a monitor, you would want to use RGB as the color mode.
However, RGB is not a color mode meant for printing. CMYK (standing for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key (Black)) is the other main color mode which is meant for printing. By combining different percentages of the ink colors, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, a wide variety of other colors are created. This is the method used by your ink jet printer at home all the way to commercial printing presses. CMYK is also known as “full color”, “4-color” or “process color” printing. We use CMYK as the color mode to print all of our CAD-PRINTZ™. This includes all of the digital transfers, wall graphics, banners, stickers and window clings. If you try to print artwork that is RGB using CMYK, the colors will not be consistent and will most likely be very different from how they appear on your computer screen. Therefore, if you are sending us artwork for any CAD-PRINTZ™ product, we need the color mode in CMYK.
Changing the color mode of your artwork file depends on the computer application you are using. Please check your users guide for your particular application that you are using for details.
RGB and CMYK Color Model
Making t-shirts from Your Artwork
Mar/090
Are you sign shop or embroidery business trying to learn graphics software to make shirts from you or your customers artwork? Since technology moves so fast most Graphic Designers are in the same position as you are.
Here are some graphics software educational resources we recommend:
- CorelDraw.com
- Adobe.com
- Macromonster.com
- T-shirtforums.com
- AdvancedArtist.com
- CorelDrawPro.com
- Lynda.com – highly recommended – subscription based
- Photoshopuser.com – highly recommended – subscription based
Photoshopuser.com is a great resource of tutorials & networking about information about Photoshop®. Some our Designers have attended their multi-day seminars and have raved about it. If you are using Photoshop® to create full color artwork for our digital CAD-PRINTZ™, you can’t go wrong with a subscritpion to (NAPP) Photoshopuser.com!
Here is a link to the Transfer Express’ artwork guidlines for our plastisol screen printed & digital transfers.
And don’t forget, if you don’t have time to learn the graphics software we offer our “no artwork needed” Easy Prints® designs that you can customize online with our Easy View™ design tool.
