Create Fan Club Custom T-Shirts

Adobe Photoshop - Everyone knows what Photoshop is, but hardly anyone realizes it's potential. Photoshop is capable of so many things that no one person can use it fully, it's not just a photo editing software. It's a bitmap software. It's great for turning paintings or illustrations into digital artworks and is hardy enough to handle endless numbers of colors. However, you are limited by size. The size that your artwork is when you start is the size that it needs to stay. It cannot be enlarged without becoming blurry, but it can be reduced without compromising quality.

You are as good as your printer: The printer you chose is perhaps the most important decision to make. Make sure that you have a look at your printer's previous works, or have a word with some of his customers. Another method to do this is to ask the printer for swatches of his previous work.

When there are two sides to a debate there is almost always a compromise. The same is true with cotton and polyester, a 50/50 blend of the two was soon invented to appease both sides of the debate. These 50/50 blends have a lot of advantages and very few disadvantages. They bring the best of both worlds to one t-shirt. They have the comfort and breathability of cotton with the durability of polyester. They aren't going to shrink as much and they aren't going to wrinkle as much. Of course, a 50/50 blend isn't going to be as comfortable as a 100% cotton shirt but it also isn't going to be as hot as a 100% polyester shirt. That's why its called a compromise.

One aspect which T shirt printing brings forth is the uniqueness of the person. It is hard to be a 'somebody' in a world where competition is increasing everyday. How will you stand out among the crowd? You will be able to cast your own aura, if you come up with something which is popular and unique. If you are worried that you may not get the message that you will like, you have the option of designing your own T shirt as well. The methods of digital printing and screen printing are some of the methods used in the printing of T shirts.

Now I would like to mention that in this article I have frequently compared T-Shirt transfer printing to screen printing. Screen printing has two distinct benefits. You are able to use white ink and the ink for screen printing is designed specifically for fabric.

Polyester won't shrink when initially washed, in fact it will never shrink. A polyester t-shirt will stay the same size forever, unless it is physically altered in some way. Polyester t-shirts wont fade as quick, in fact they will last a lot longer. They become much more washable because of the number of wash cycles they can last before they start to show their age. One of the biggest benefits of polyester is that it doesn't wrinkle. Wear a 100% polyester t-shirt and there is absolutely no need to iron it because it will already be wrinkle fee straight out of the dryer. Polyester does have its draw backs. It isn't as comfortable to wear as cotton. It doesn't breath like cotton, which means that sweat and body heat doesn't escape from it as easy, making it a hotter t-shirt to wear.

Another method is Direct To Garment (DTG) printing. This is a method of running the actual shirt through a printer which prints the image on to the shirt just as a standard in home ink jet printer would print out a document from your computer. There has been some talk in the design community of the ink drying or clumping up in these machines, but I have seen the work they do and it looks great and feels great on the shirt. This is a higher end option at this time with some printers going for around $25,000. You could get a used on for around $16,000, but it would take a lot of shirts to pay off that large of an investment.

There are many local printing shops as well as online stores from where you can get your custom tee printed. The online stores provide plenty of design options to choose from and often offer discounts as well. As for the design of your T shirt, well this can come from a variety of different sources, one of the best being the internet. Think about the colour that you want, will it complement your design? What about the text? You will need to decide on the font, font size and style. The text often becomes an expression of your mood or emotions. Funny T shirts are very much in vogue at the moment with inspiration being drawn from many quarters of life such as movies, music, sports and stereotypes such as Geeks.