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JSand aka Josh Sandler is a 18.26 year old boy, has been a member since May 13, 2005, has scored 1092 submissions, giving an average score of 2.92.

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May 14 '05 by JSand

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Design DPI help

I am starting to make a few designs to submit. I finished one design and then realized that the website says the design must be at least 150 DPI. I created my shirt in Photoshop using the default 72 pixels/inch. I can change it from 72 to 150, but it screws up the design a little bit. Do I need to change to 150 pixels/inch and remake the shirt from scratch?

Freeek on May 14 '05 at 4:09pm

pretty much.. if it's not vector it won't scale up cleanly, so there's no other way of making it better quality other than redoing it.

Moglandor on May 14 '05 at 5:06pm

Yeah, basically a 150 dpi image is more detailed and there's no way to "automatically" add that detail. Of course this is just another reason to use vector graphics like in Illustrator.

JSand on May 14 '05 at 5:56pm

Thanks, I remade it and it's fine...I have one other problem though. I'm trying to downsize it so it will fit on the t-shirt template. How can I downsize it so the size of the shirt and the design are proportional?

Jaycee on May 14 '05 at 7:53pm

using photoshop, the transform tool shortcut is Ctrl-T, so if you merge all the layers of the design (after saving a backup obviously) except the background layer, then hit Ctrl-T. hold shift and drag the corner of the selection box jobby down until it's the size you want. holding shift means you keep the proportions right.

JSand on May 14 '05 at 8:08pm

I guess I didn't explain what I mean right... I know how to make the design smaller and keep it in proportion...I need to make the design proportional to the t shirt size. I need ot make the design the size that it would actually look if the shirt were made. I'f I resize it wrong it might be too big or too small, and wouldn't look like it would on the real shirt.

Moglandor on May 14 '05 at 9:00pm

OK, here's the deal - you need a 150 dpi image in case it gets picked to be printed. But for submission to Threadless you will want to save a copy of that file as a 640x480 72dpi image. It may seem a little weird, but essentially you need 2 different versions of the design. One hi res that can be used for printing, the other to display on the web.

kypade on May 14 '05 at 10:26pm

guys large tees are 22 inches in width. if you want your image 7 inches when printed, just make it approximately 1/3 of the template width. but really that doesnt matter.

KEMMLER on May 15 '05 at 10:31pm

what you should do is increase contrast to 100% then scale up to 150 dpi, then redo the posterization/contrast enhancement so you lose the blur artifacts from the scale up.