pretty sure you have like 20 colors going on in this shirt.

That means you like it, huh chad?

In reality the design would take three to four colors to print (white, cyan, black, maybe magenta) with halftones... the raster image used in the Flash obviously isn't perfect as-is, but the shirt would not be printed from Flash.

- jaykay

the zoom makes it look like this is not vector...

i like it on the light green and the tan... but if printing it is a problem, you better get that solved. if it's going to be printed from vector, have a vector image for us to evaluate. otherwise, you aren't representing the product efficiently.

OK I'm probably talking to a wall here. But let's get this straight...

This is not a vector design. It was created in 3D Studio MAX, and rendered to a raster TGA image. The image was then scaled, and placed into Flash to display what I have here.

My specific reply to bllsmb:
I had not been insinuating in my reply that this was a vector image; I was stating that as a raster image in Flash, it is far less clear and pretty than it is in its original format, like *any* raster image used in Flash. That is because Flash's export settings turn all raster images into JPGs and generally mess them up a bit (it does not use Bicubic sampling for resizing a raster).

Reply to Elizabeth:
Thanks! And printing will not be a problem, I assure you. In the off chance that this was to actually win and be printed (I have really given up hope of that ever happening thanks to the awful response I usually get to my designs), Threadless would ask for a file from me to be printed. They do not have any specific requirements about how the image is made, as far as whether the source file is vector or raster.
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Excerpt from Threadless' rules:
"Design your tee in a vector art program such as Adobe Illustrator, or Macromedia Freehand... or design in a raster program such as Adobe Photoshop. If you are designing in a raster program, make sure you design actual size at at least 150dpi. "

jaykay - nice design man, good on yer for defending!!! No need for it to be vector at all, in fact, most of the threadless rules have been broken by those already in print!! Keep up the good (and original) work!

Thanks MindCrash :) Much appreciated!

gee wiz, if you're going to start quoting rules, how about this one to respond to your comment about how easy it will be to print...
> Design must have 4 or less unique colors, no gradients, no photographs, NO TINY HALFTONES. Remember, black & white count.

Dude, what is everybody's problem here? The design is EASILY printable. I am a professional print designer. This is what I do. Trust me.

On top of that, I'm not sure if you've noticed this, Mr. caramelair, but threadless reviews every design before they allow it to be posted for the running. They state that one reason for rejection is "too many colors." If my design was posted, why does everyone have to question it?

Someone else back me up here, this is becoming absurd.