Profile for DownTownBrown - Multi-Shirt colours?

DownTownBrown aka James Brown is 24.98 years old, has been a member since July 10, 2007, has scored 1,068 submissions, giving an average score of 1.78, helping 23 designs get printed.

Jul 24 '07 by DownTownBrown
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Multi-Shirt colours?

So do people use flashy action scripts and such to show the designs on heaps of different colours, because they have no faith in their own colour choices or because they actually think the shirt if printed, is going to be printed on every possible colour?

That was a huge sentence! Don't mean to sound like a whine or anything but i think it needs to be put out there as it could potentially help alot of less experienced users that are sub'ing. Most of the strongest shirts seem to be designed for a certain colour shirt with that shirt in mind when the colour choices are made. It's pretty basic colour theory, colours just look different relative to other colours.

Love to hear any thoughts or theories on this topic. Also love to hear from printed designers if they present their subs on one considered colour or more? dun dun dun

Cactus Pirate Jr. on Jul 24 '07 at 10:41pm

I think people like to see variety...If one color combo doesn't work for someone, maybe one of the other combos the designer presents will do it for them.

victimofopportunity on Jul 24 '07 at 10:42pm

a bunch of people score subs lower just because they dislike the color choices. Maybe the designers are trying to prevent that by showing the design in multiple colors and on different colored shirts.

wullagaru on Jul 24 '07 at 10:43pm

generally speaking catus is right I tend to just work with one set of colors in mind though

DownTownBrown on Jul 24 '07 at 10:51pm

cool, interesting to hear.

I wondered if that was the case, I think often i give subs lower scores for the mutli-colour presention because it makes me think they haven't actually finished designing it and they skipped the critique forum. wonder if anyone else does the same.

threadless only ever print on one colour or one colour for each gender right?

victimofopportunity on Jul 24 '07 at 10:52pm

you should score the design, not the color choices.

Cactus Pirate Jr. on Jul 24 '07 at 10:55pm

Yeah, I don't think it's right to give a design a lower score under the assumption that they didn't finish designing it. Not everyone goes through the critiques, and as kb said, presenting variations in color is most often just a way to appeal to as many voters as possible.

DownTownBrown on Jul 24 '07 at 10:56pm

aren't they one and the same

WanderingBert on Jul 24 '07 at 10:56pm

I generally design for a specific shirt colour, but i'm mindful of the other colours it would work on. I like showing option because some people have a dislike of a specific colour. If you show them one they like they might just give a better score.

bobbyleonard on Jul 24 '07 at 10:57pm

I've always designed for a specific color shirt... but on my most recent design (currently pending approval) I put 4 different choices because someone in the critique mentioned that it might be scored lower specifically because someone might not like that color shirt.

victimofopportunity on Jul 24 '07 at 10:57pm

threadless chooses what sort of colors they want for the print in the end

DownTownBrown on Jul 24 '07 at 11:09pm

so with this all fresh in our minds, whats a good number to show? and what's excessive?

Cactus Pirate Jr. on Jul 24 '07 at 11:12pm

I guess it really depends on whether or not the color choices actually work well, but there probably is a set number people are willing to look at.

I'm thinking a maximum of 3-5 different color choices is a good number for people to choose between.

DownTownBrown on Jul 24 '07 at 11:15pm

Haha yea mint is wicked. I personally love natural, but because their's a big anti-white thing I fear natural is too close to white, are my fears unfounded? and kiwi is just about the sweetest t-shirt colour ive seen but i think it scares people.

2 days later

jasper7777 on Jul 27 '07 at 10:05pm

Good subject, I design with a color scheme in mind, but when I get to the end and its finished. My favorite thing to do is change the color of the shirt, then change the color of the designs to go with the shirt. I could do that for hours just for fun.

(also, I hate the submissions in flash that blink and change colors, it hurts my eyes)

starr226 on Jul 27 '07 at 10:11pm

you'd be surprised at how many people will "0" a shirt design because it's shown to be on a certain color shirt. so showing multiple options will generally prevent that.

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