Am 24.01.2013 10:24, schrieb Michael Fox:

On 24/01/13 20:23, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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What kind of design would you like to see Jos? Just some generic openSUSE stuff for printing on shirts? I would guess this means no version numbers or anything just logos and such? We can slap a logo on a shirt. What would be cool to have is something

On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:23 AM, DuBois, Scott L. wrote: that is less "just an openSUSE logo" but more "a cool t-shirt that hints at openSUSE". Be it a funny/geeky slogan, a cool image, something you would wear to work (provided you work in IT) or to university. That is the kind of thing we're looking for...

Of course the usual applies - should be printable (I don't know much about it but printing on t-shirts has its limitations) and in a SVG or similarly open format.

got a shirt template we can use?

Here you are: http://www.marcusmoeller.ch/share/oS/misc/male_shirt_template.svg Greets Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Thanks for the input everyone and Marcus, that SVG for shirts is very cool! I've looked into this before and most places will allow up to 3 colors before charging more which in most cases turns out to be a LOT more. Things to stay away from are gradients and of course photographs mostly. If we are all talking about Spreadshirt, then they provide a lot of leeway in design since I have a store set up with them too and have used some pretty elaborate designs. The kinds of things I'm thinking would fall into the category of the former where an image with 3 or less colors and I typically like to work with 200dpi. I have a couple of ideas in my head, let me play with them a while and get back. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 10:23 +0100, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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Of course the usual applies - should be printable (I don't know much about it but printing on t-shirts has its limitations) and in a SVG or similarly open format.

Two things to consider for t-shirts:

1. T-shirts use screen-printing. Therefore, a high DPI is not required. 100dpi images are sufficient. You should test how an image looks when printed on 100dpi to make sure that all the lines and details you want are effective.

2. Screen-printing charges per color. Therefore, you want to be careful what colors you pick. Prices can really climb once you add more colors. I would not advise more than 2 colors. If you can do it in just one color, that = more t-shirts that can be printed within budget.

What I tend to do is use the color management in GIMP to reduce the colors from a multiple-colorful design.

GIMP > Colors > Info > Colorcube Analysis: This will tell you how many colors your current image has. You'll be surprised how high it can be. (In the thousands!)

GIMP > Image > Mode > Indexed: Will give you the opportunity to specify the amount of colors you want your image to have.

To be fair, this option of reducing colors can distort the image completely in a negative way. This is especially true for photographic images. So, design your t-shirt concept with limited colors up front and you'll be in better shape.

And about photographic images, that's a high-number color image (even in black/white because of shades) so you have to take that into consideration if you want to use a photographic image as part of your t-shirt design.

As an example, I took a photo of myself just now. It showed to have 78,126 colors in it. I then switched it to black/white photo (GIMP > Colors > Desaturate) and the picture went down to 254 colors. Then I indexed it to 4 colors. And that resulted in a distortion.

I mention this because earlier, I saw proposed design for a Thessaloniki tower on t-shirt. You'll have problems unless Jos is willing to pay for the full color screen printing.

By the way, this same concept also applies to vinyl banner printing which also uses screen printing techniques.

Bryen

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