Profile for jtaro - Tee Colours in Illustrator

jtaro aka Jeffrey is a 21.87 year old boy, has been a member since May 29, 2005, has scored 3,102 submissions, giving an average score of 2.61, helping 43 designs get printed.

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Jul 14 '05 by jtaro
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Tee Colours in Illustrator

Someone help me out.

What colours can I use for tee-shirts? I've been criticised about non-existant tee-colours but why does Threadless accept the design then? Anyways, just wondering what colours I can and can't use.

mezo on Jul 14 '05 at 3:38pm

That's why Threadless gives you a specific file to download...Contained is the correct template to use, along with a plethora of shirts & their colors.

techwarman on Jul 14 '05 at 4:01pm

As far as I know you can use any color created in CMYK (wich means that it should print) some RGB colors cannot be printed, so try to use CMYK to create your colors, create a swatch and use it

little_hobbit_feet on Jul 14 '05 at 4:06pm

Pantone colours you mean?

I think he's asking about actual shirt colours, not the ink colours.

grayehound on Jul 14 '05 at 4:41pm

Plethora used in a sentence is good enough for me.

Botht he Flash and Photoshop templates have all of the shirt colors in them. What's weird (sorta) is that both files are in RGB for posting here, but all of your colors need to be switched to Pantone for press. If you don't know what Pantone colors are, you're probably a redneck.

bortwein on Jul 14 '05 at 4:48pm

I got crafty one day and built myself an illustrator document that has all the tee colors set up, similiar to the photoshop and flash files. I just work in that now. It also has the 13x13 design area setup. Maybe I'll share the file someday.

_Wheels03 on Jul 14 '05 at 4:50pm

bortwein- can you send me the template?

grayehound on Jul 14 '05 at 4:55pm

Isn't it 15" x 15"?

shimala on Jul 14 '05 at 6:14pm

13" is the largest we can print... I don't know why it said 15" before

jtaro on Jul 15 '05 at 1:25am

Bortwein don't tease, please? I NEED THAT DOCUMENT!

hahaha lets make this into a spy movie.

No really though, would you mind sharing??

my AIM sn is jtaro001, please get back to me somehow

Webbins on Jul 15 '05 at 2:54am

I made an illustrator file also. Some of the tee colours aren't reflected too well in the photoshop file, particularly royal, orange, etc, so I just copied the tee template & drop in the corrected colour before pasting in photoshop for submitting.

bortwein on Jul 15 '05 at 9:22am

Wheels and jtaro... Find the template located on my profile page.

Pifman on Jul 15 '05 at 9:26am

Yeah I was gonna do that in Illustrater too. Guess I'll check out bortwein's file first. Anyways yeah jtaro, after 4 shirts submitted you still haven't noticed the mandatory psd and flash files in the submit area?

bortwein on Jul 15 '05 at 10:56am

Bump, just to get the template word out.

little_hobbit_feet on Jul 15 '05 at 11:04am

Holy shit, bortwein.

That's the Sesame Street Generation at work.

What a super example of sharing!

bortwein on Jul 15 '05 at 11:57am

It may not be a perfect template, but I like to think it works. I find the color transfer between it and the photoshop template are a bit off, but that is probably just the CMYK I have set to the RGB of the photoshop one.

shimala on Jul 15 '05 at 11:58am

I'm still trying to find time to get the PSD up today.. cross your fingers

jtaro on Jul 15 '05 at 4:00pm

Bortwein there is a template for the 13x13 on a blue shirt, but what about all the colours?

bortwein on Jul 15 '05 at 4:03pm

check your Layers window in Illustrator. They should all be there. And the template I posted is only a 8x8 space setup at the moment but you can change that if you like.

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