you have to start out with a high resolution. you can't just make a design bigger after it's already finished.

Well if the image itself is small and you increase the DPI, it's not going to magically make your image a higher resolution. You should create it in at least 300 dpi to begin with. :)

create it actual size at 300 dpi. so like, if it's going to take up a 7 inch by 7 inch square on the shirt, when you open a new document make it 7x7 inches at 300 dpi.

oh sorry, i thought this was about a photoshop revolution

you say you wanna revolution weheheeeellll you know

we all wanna change the world

thanks Steve McCartney

I was singing that half an hour ago.

I just tried what was suggested:(



I started of with a blank with 300 dpi and did the same design. i made my design into a brush on photoshop btw. i used the brush on it again and i compared the pixelation and it looked the same! i tried it in 500 dpi too and it was the same.



My design was drawn freehand. do you think it might help if i printed out the pixelated version large , went pover it in marker and rescaned it, would it help?



you can see my design here: simply defined

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If you created the brush from a low resolution image, if you make it huge it's going to still look blurry.

ohh/ ok. let me try what steve suggest first. but if its in like 7 inch by 7 inche how do i make sure its the right width and stuff for submission? because it has to be 640 pixels wide right?

well simply u start of your drawing in the 300 dpi image, when you're done, create a new 640x800 px 300 dpi document, copy paste, scale down to fit. And tadah!

Well you usually make your design and then create the presentation as a separate file. Your presentation only has to be web resolution, which is 72 dpi. Your original design should be 300 dpi because that is what they'd use to put on the shirt. And yes, usually a basic size is 800 x 640 pixels.

honestly, i doubt that design will be accepted. there's not much to it and it's not very well produced. you should try to flesh out whatever your idea is more.

create a separate document for the submission image



640x800px at 72dpi



then just drag your high res design in there and resize accordingly.

i too slow

my brush was scanned and it was at 300 dpi when opened in photoshop. if i do an image at the actual size, how do i re size it to the the right width and will that affect if it looks pixelated again?

No. It has to be as big as the t-shirt will be.



But, when you're finished with it, you keep that big file as a psd in case Threadless want to print it, but you create a new jpg or gif file that will be your submission and that picture will be 640 pixels wide. But that small, low quality picture is just what the voters will see for us to judge, it's a small copy. You can't blow that up to go on a t-shirt and the colours won't be separated. You need to keep a big file that is full quality and actual size.

ahhh. ok I'm slow as well! Ok now i get it. thanks for the help. and i',m still working on the design! so comment on where i could improve too:) thankssssss

im getting thoroughly confused by all this talk of brushes

yes, make the resolution as high as 600. Scan in your original drawing at 600 dpi and then work from there. enlarge canvas as needed. My designs in psd usually end up 2gb in the end. which is ridiculous but i can print any size if i wanted to.

Torakamikaze on Jun 04 '09 at 10:01am

im getting thoroughly confused by all this talk of brushes



Yeah, I don't know why anyone would make their design a brush.

oooh. ok.thanks:)

this design was easier as a brush because i was combining the same pic. :)