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catalina aguilera aka Catalina Aguilera is a girl, has been a member since November 9, 2008, has scored 4,524 submissions, giving an average score of 1.16, helping 33 designs get printed.
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How to use textures?
Hi guys!

I have a question Ive been wondering for quite a while..

I'd really like to use textures on my designs but ive never understood the limits of printing.

First of all, as Ive understood it all the colors have to be separated on diferent layers, right?

Well lets say I have a layer where i use a grunge-brush, this would make the layer/image have different levels of transparency in it. I always thought that they had to be solid colors for some reason, that having some transparency wouldnt work :S.

Does anyone understand what i mean? :D
if you do, please help me out :(

silverqe
   silverqe on Dec 11 '09 at 1:32pm
I always submit my files as one single layer, I'm sure it drives Threadless crazy, but they ARE capable of separating the colors themselves - so you don't have to put every color on a different layer! And your layers can definitely be of different opacities! If you want to use textures and have different opacities and have all those texure-y, watercolor-y effects, they'll just print it simulated process.



What I'm saying is that you can make whatever you want. :) Just know that I don't think Threadless can do OVERSIZE prints with simulated process, just regular-sized prints. Oversizes are limited to 4-5 colors, I believe.



That's all I know! Hopefully a staff gets in here to back me up.
catalina aguilera
   catalina aguilera on Dec 11 '09 at 2:00pm
woow, that good to know!

Thanks :D
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