T Shirt Designing Mistakes You Must Avoid!

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T Shirt Designing Mistakes You Must Avoid!

• PRINTING T SHIRT DESIGNS

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Save yourself from these horrendous T shirt
designing mistakes.

• Everyone loves to wear an amazing t-shirt that
  makes people turn their heads when you enter a
  room. But people are not able to nail the look
  quite properly. This can occur for more than one
  reason. People often end up making unintentional
  t shirt designing mistakes that ultimately ruin a
  great t-shirt.
• Even the simplest designs are not as simple to
  make as we think they are. So, in order to
  achieve greatness, you need to avoid making
  common mistakes. 
• We have compiled the most common T shirt
  designing mistakes people often commit when
  making their designs come to life. So, stick
  around to find out

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Placement of Print on Shirts

• Print placement is oftentimes confused with
  location, but it is actually the specific
  measurement of the point where you have to print
  the design inside the location. You can come up
  with cute shirt designs that make people stop and
  stare but if you get the placement of the design
  wrong, you will be making heads turn for all the
  wrong reasons. 
• If your t shirt graphic design is in a standard
  location like full back or full front, you need
  to ensure that the design placement is also
  standard and that it works across various garment
  sizes and types. If you want an alternate
  placement, make sure to inform the printing
  platform you are using and ask them to show you
  how it will look.
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Composition

• Composition is something you may recall from when
  you learned how to design a shirt or from your
  high school art lectures. Every design contains
  some elements arranged in relation to one another
  and this relation makes up their overall
  composition.
• What makes for a carefully designed composition
  can be a matter of different opinions, but the
  rules are the same that can enhance your design
  significantly and take it to the next level. You
  can learn about it online if you want to boost
  your composition game.
• A typical t shirt designing mistake people make
  when printing popular sweatshirt designs is that
  the elements are way too bunched up or too spaced
  out. Sometimes the whole design is off-balance
  which draws the eye to the wrong place or the
  typing is in the wrong order. So, there is a
  variety of elements in your design then you need
  to put effort and time into your composition and
  then show it to your fellows to get their
  feedback.

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Number of Colours

• Colour is extremely important not just for design
  purposes but also for screen printing. Make sure
  that it does not cross your budget because more
  colours mean more cost per item. In some cases,
  screen printing uses a technique known as
  halftones, which involves tiny dots that are able
  to make 3, 4 colours appear as if there are many
  more.
• Also Read How to Screen Print A Step-by-Step
  Guide for Beginners
• You need to think about colours from the very
  moment you start designing a shirt because they
  can have specific effects on different people.
  So, you need to be aware of colour psychology. 
• If you are using direct to garment
  printing instead of screen printing, then it is
  obvious that the printing will be done in full
  colour, so the number of colours do not matter
  here anymore, hence, budget isnt a problem here.
  This makes this method a good choice for
  full-colour photographs but still the colour
  choices matter in terms of aesthetics. 
• Adding a lot of colours to your t shirt such as
  fall shirt designs to make the design look vivid
  can backfire and make your shirt look ugly
  because of clashing. Go for an ideal number of
  colours to choose from based on what you need to
  correctly represent a picture or an official
  logo. So, you need to fulfil your design goals
  while using the least amount of colours.
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  Heat Transfer Paper

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T Shirt Design Size

• T-shirt printing is a business where size matters
  a lot. It is important to consider how big should
  a shirt design be instead of just going with the
  standard sizing most of the time. You need to
  decide the size on the basis of your designs
  nature and the characteristics of the garment you
  are printing on. 
• The size and shape of the design are what makes a
  good t shirt design, and it can end up looking a
  lot bigger than it is supposed to. For instance,
  square or circles look better in smaller sizes
  rather than the standard size. You can also think
  about one size fitting all, so based on your
  garments size range and your orders size you
  may want to think about going for a sized down
  print for smaller garments like for the youth and
  ladies.
• Another factor to keep in mind is the style of
  the items you want to print which can have a
  limited print space sometimes, such
  as hoodies with pockets. In conclusion, size is
  important, and it can make or destroy your design
  so think about it before following through with
  the final design.
• Also Read How to Style a Hoodie in 5 Amazing Ways

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Typography and Fonts

• Typography is also known as the visual component
  of the words written on a shirt, and it is not
  just the text but the display and print of the
  text are also involved to some degree. It
  involves arranging or typesetting words in a way
  that makes sense paired with font choice and
  taking care of line spacing and letter spacing.
• Your font choice says a lot about how your design
  is received and what emotions it evokes in people
  even if it is not intentional. We naturally
  attribute some characteristics to certain types
  of fonts, such as a funny slogan in Comic Sans is
  not the best thing to wear to a corporate look.
• Some standard fonts work good for almost
  everything but some fonts have specific
  applications in particular contexts. Hence,
  explore your option and remember to not use more
  than 3 fonts in a single design.
• Also Read 15 Funny Slogans to Make Your T-Shirts
  Awesome

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Image Quality

• This is one of the most commonly faced problems
  in t shirt printing. Pictures can oftentimes end
  up being low resolution and do not have
  sufficient pixels to deliver the details and
  quality that offers good print quality. This can
  be solved but only to a certain extent, for
  example, a low-quality picture can be improved a
  little, so the print becomes a little less
  crappy. The image has to be at least 200 dpi or
  higher at full size for a good quality. 
• Another problem that low-resolution poses is that
  they undergo compression more than once and
  visible artefacts can be seen as a result of that
  compression. And you cannot see them unless you
  really zoom in. Resolution does not matter in the
  case of vector, and vector files are usually PDF,
  SVG, EPS, or AI, file types.
• Another issue is the image quality of photographs
  taken of photographs because they have problems
  such as graininess, blurriness, and awkward
  cropping. So, photos need to be scanned at a high
  resolution to get the best results.
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  Software

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Inversion

• Inversion is something you should learn because
  you will be doing it a lot especially when
  working with white ink on black clothes. Trust us
  when we say that you wouldnt prefer looking like
  an x-ray if you do not do your inverting
  properly.
• Sometimes it can be hard to decide what needs to
  be inverted and what doesnt. For instance, if
  you are dealing with a black skull having white
  eyes, you need to switch its negative needs to a
  positive image, and you will have to add an
  outline to do so.

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Borders, Masks and Edges

• Some designs contain one or more than one
  photographs. And a photo just layered over
  another can look plain, boring and very
  unprofessional. As a solution, you can just put a
  border on it.
• There are endless options in edges and borders,
  such as a thin black or white border or the
  masking feature or a whole array of shapes to
  choose from. You can also decide to experiment
  with frames which are essentially thick border
  with fancy details or bevelled edges. But keep
  your design in mind when choosing frames. So, for
  an anniversary you might want to use a fancy
  frame and if it is for some sort of mudder
  competition, you can opt for distressed edges.
• Another thing you need to know about is knock
  out where a background is completely cut out or
  erased, thus, shifting the focus totally on the
  subject. This can change your design
  significantly if there are unwanted and
  unnecessary elements in your background.
• Also Read The Complete Guide to Sublimation
  Printing

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Contrast

• Contrast, even though a part of the colour
  choice, is equally important to consider.
  Contrast is the degree of visual difference
  between the lighter and the darker parts of a
  picture or how the colours correspond to one
  another. The strongest contrast is always
  white-on-black or the other way round and bright
  colours on dark backgrounds. 
• The design plays a significant in the overall
  contrast, regarding the content and what colours
  are the most dominant or get the most surface
  area. An attention-catching picture with
  saturated colours can really increase the
  contrast with a neutral background. But the
  highest contrast is not the goal all the time as
  some people prefer subtle low contrast prints
  however, it is a fine line between no contrast
  and low-contrast so be careful.
• Some common contrast t shirt designing mistakes
  that people make are navy on black shirts, ice
  grey on white shirts, or light grey ink or sport
  grey shirts. These are all low contrast combos
  and not recommended.

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Final Takeaway

• These are all the T Shirt Designing Mistakes that
  you must avoid at all costs if you do not want to
  end up with a crappy design.
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