Shirt Designs

i’m looking to design a red men’s t-shirt and to use a site where i can upload my own graphic

along with Zazzle you can try CafePress.com

i’m pretty sure cafepress is a couple of bucks cheaper.

I’m designing a t-shirt for something at my school and the directionas are that you need to have it in a digital format. How do you do that? do you need special programs?

Yes, you need to use a program such as Adobe Photoshop (you can get a 30 day trial, which should suit your purpose here) to create an image and save it as a JPG, PNG, or TIFF (whichever file extension they recommend).

I provided a link to the trial download as well as a link to some basic tutorials on getting started.

I already have this idea of an angel wings on the back of the shirt with the words "Fly High" below.

Or, does somebody know where can i get cool images relating to my concept for the T-shirt so that i can design the T-shirt on my own? (I’d like the site to be free)

Thank you…

You could get other ideas from sites like Cafepress.com and search for business school shirts. You also might want to google "Free Fonts" for some unique style lettering for the shirt. Also, try Zazzle.com for T-shirt design ideas (search Business School).

Personally, while we are talking about business schools.., I like M.B.A. "More Beers Anyone?" Not that you need any other ideas, sounds like you’re design will look nice!

John
http://www.spotlighttees.com

I have a slogan I want to print on a t shirt and hopefully make some money from it…

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I want to know what kind of software i would need to create my own shirt and sweater designs from home. I don’t want a program that only allows me to use previously made templates but create completely new ones from scratch.

The two best programs would be Corel Draw and Adobe Photoshop.
These are more professional programs.
http://www.corel.com/international.html
Thats the link for Corel.

http://www.digitalmayheminc.com does the same kinda thing, they might be able to help you.

I have a design i really like, and i want to submit as a tee-shirt design to threadless.com, it has photoshop brushes i didn’t create, am i aloud to submit it?

you need to ask the creator of the brushes.
On the other hand, if you cant tell whose brushes they are, if they are super obscured, go right on ahead and use them.

http://xxxjoannxxx.deviantart.com/art/Save-the-Wolves-113853613
It comes without the border. I’m only 15, and have been drawing for about 3 months. What do you think? And please don’t critique every little thing. I just want to know what you think of it overall.

The design is supposed to bring awareness to wolf slaughter.

Enhance the contrast between the lettering and its background to improve legibility. It doesn’t make a successful message if it can’t be read. The wolves are delightful.

I am interested in making my own t shirts and would like to know if anyone could tell me what kind of software or equipment I could use to design artwork for a t shirt. I draw a lot of my designs by hand and also wanted to know if there is a way to scan my designs and edit them on the computer? Thanks for your answers!

You can use any program that creates a graphic that can be printed. There is special inkjet printer paper that you print on , then iron it onto the t-shirt. You can use anything you have – paint, MS Word, Photoshop. etc. There is an excellent open source (free) program called The Gimp that is as good as Photoshop.

I’m doing an organization about t-shirt designing for my "youth venture" goal.

Do you any cheap but good quality priting compony that does it?

Yes, this company did some promotional t-shirts for my company.
good quality and much better price than the competitors
they do a lot of work for colleges
http://local.yahoo.com/info-20583976-top-hat-screen-design-long-beach

say i design something on adobe illustrator after the foo fighters, its my own design and i want to sell the shirt. is that legal?
no it isnt a copied design and it would just be my own design with the name of foo fighters on it

The "sell it" part of your question would clearly put your project on the wrong side of the copyright protection laws.

Lets take a similar example and change it by degrees:

If you design your own Foo Fighters tee shirt and wore it as your own piece of "fan art," you would be fine, as this would fall under the copyright laws "fair use" doctrine. You are using the band name on your original design shirt as a form of homage. You could even go so far as to make an EXACT copy of one of their existing designs, and you could wear it.

Take it one step further. Lets say you and a half dozen friends are all going to a Foo Fighters concert and you want to make six copies of your tee shirt design. As long as you aren’t selling the shirts to your friends, you should still be fine, under copyright and trademark laws. (still personal use)

One more step farther: Lets say, you own a tee shirt printing business, and you decide to print out a few hundered of your custom designed Foo Fighter shirts and brought them to a concert, to give them away, FOR FREE, as a way to promote your shirt printing business. This effort crosses the line of legal vs. illegal as your distribution of the shirt, with a trademarked name is still for commercial purposes, even though you are not making a dime, in fact, you would be losing money on distributing these free shirts. The point here is that you are attempting to, eventually, make money on this promotion by encouraging future business. Without the band’s permission to use their name, you could face a lawsuit.

So, even if you sold, EVEN ONE, single shirt, no matter who created the design, you would run afoul of copyright and trademark laws and face a possible lawsuit if you got caught.

http://www.copyright.gov.