TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

Some people have asked me how exactly one goes about creating a design for a t-shirt or a mug or a hat or whatever. I’ll tell you this, everyone has their own methods and many of us have different methods depending on how the design comes to us. For example sometimes I will create a design on canvas with oil paints and sometimes I will work them up on paper with water colors and then scan them into the computer and create the end product from that base. Still other times I will start with a pen or pencil sketch. Other times I will do the entire design from conception to finish in Paint Shop Pro and never touch a piece of paper. (more…)

One mistake a lot of people make when selling t-shirts and gifts online through a company like Cafepress is that they slap the same image on t-shirts as they do on mugs as they do on clocks as they do on buttons. The problem is that different products have different usable spaces and slapping the same image on every potential product leads to some ugly looking products!

The solution to this is simple - you have to have different images for different types of products. (more…)

Ok, so you’re designing your latest and greatest T-shirt but there’s a problem. You want to use two colors that are similar colors on top of each other. While that may look ok, it probably won’t. Try to avoid stacking similar colors on top of each other especially if you are not aware of how RGB converts to CMYK. If you start out with this: (more…)

What you see is not always what you get when designing graphics for t-shirts and other items to sell online.  The most common mistake that would-be T-shirt Entrepreneurs make is that they think that what is displayed on their screen in their top end graphic software program is what is going to get spit out on canvas (t-shirt, mug, etc).

Well, it’s not.  And to understand why it’s not, you have to understand that there are two different ways in which colors are generated for our eyes; RGB and CMYK. (more…)

Creating a good graphic design is a very crucial job. It takes a lot of artistic quality and resourcefulness to be able to come up with a one-of-a-kind design for your graphic needs. If an excellent graphic design is what you�re after, then hiring a graphic designer is the best thing to do.
For those who are still (more…)