tmac

hi guys & gals,

i have a question for the forum. what i'm needing to know is how i should convert a hand drawing in photoshop to be print-ready for a t-shirt image. i have a friend who is an artist with impeccable talent and i would like to get some of his designs on a few shirts i plan on making.

here's the deal: he can draw the image with shading or he can create it without (sort of like a vector graphic) but what is the normal procedure as far as getting a hand drawing ready for a shirt image? i haven't had him start yet because i wanted to instruct him first on which route to take. obviously, we don't want the pencil color to show but more of a bold darkened look so can i just simply darken the piece in photoshop or do i need to make adjustments in illustrator?

feel free to PM me with further questions. i want to get him started on it this wekend and i will post the results on this same thread. thanks everyone for your tremendous help!! [righton]

Erik

Best is to first decide on how you are going to print it, or have it printed. If you want to print yourselves, you can buy special "paper" that you can iron on the teeshirt.

If you want to have it printed, you'll most probably have to use serigraphy. Best is to contact a printer that uses this technique, get an agreement on what it must cost, and then ask her/him what he needs delivered.

If this is done, and you have problems, we can try to help. But right now, your question is too hazy.

tmac

Thanks for the reply Erik.

I will soon have my own silk screen printer so I will actually be making the shirts. i just wanted to know if a drawing with heavy shading is OK for silk screen printing or not? if not i guess will have to touch it up in illustrator.

Erik

I promise I'll try to find as many data as possible for you. Yet you may want to ask this question to Gary Bouton over in the InsideTrack forum. ( abit further down the list) He's an expert, and the writer of the classic "inside photoshop" book.