Overview
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Create T-Shirt Designs using Photoshop, Illustrator, and hand-drawing techniques.
What you'll learn:- Design a t-shirt using various computer and traditional design tools
- Create thumbnail sketches to quickly test initial design ideas
- Layout type in Adobe Illustrator, using Adobe Typekit fonts
- Create custom Photoshop brushes to add color and texture to designs
- Incorporate hand-drawn effects into computer-based designs
- Choose Pantone colors to specify screen printing ink colors
- Size a t-shirt graphic to the correct resolution and dimensions
- Prepare designs to be printed with sublimation and direct-to-garment methods
- Refine graphic designs by moving seamlessly from hand-sketching to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
- Fill out a "spec sheet" for screen printing, so your t-shirt comes back printed with the correct colors, sizing, and placement
- Create color separations in Photoshop and Illustrator using "index" and "halftone" methods (without the need for other expensive software)
Improving your t-shirt design skills is one of the most rewarding investments that you can make in your design career.
In this workshop we will go over the entire process of creating a t-shirt design, from finding ideas all the way to sending your designs out to be printed.
We will send out the design to 3 different printers. At the end, those shirts will be unboxed so you can see exactly how they came back from the printer (there will be a few unexpected surprises you can learn from!)
In this course we’ll cover:
- How to find and apply inspiration
- The various computer tools and traditional tools you will need to create t-shirt designs.
- How to move seamlessly between Photoshop, Illustrator, and pencil & paper so your designs come out as good or better than you had initially imagined
- Type layout using Adobe Typekit fonts
- How to create your own custom Photoshop brushes to quickly add color and texture to your designs
- How to incorporate hand-drawn effects into a computer-based design
- How to make sureyour graphic is screen printed with the exact ink colors, sizing, and placement that you want
- Printing with sublimation and DTG (direct-to-garment) methods
- Avoiding common mistakes so your t-shirts come back printed exactly as designed
As a bonus you will also receive:
- The Photoshop watercolor brushes made in the workshop
- All 3 colorways of the finished “South Shore” design created (Photoshop format)
- 2 bonus lectures showing methods to create “index” and “halftone” screen printing color separations in Photoshop and Illustrator without the need for any extrasoftware
- Downloadable files for the two color separation methods demonstrated in the workshop
